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ASMA083E

HLASM Programmer's Guide
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Created SET symbol is not a valid symbol - xxxxxxxx

Explanation

A SET symbol created by variable symbol substitution or concatenation does not consist of an ampersand followed by up to 62 alphanumeric characters, the first of which is alphabetic.

System action

If the symbol is in the operand field of a SET, AIF, or AGO statement, its value is set to zero or null, and the type attribute is set to undefined (U). If the symbol is in the operand field of a GBL or LCL statement or the name field of a SET statement, processing of the macro stops.

Programmer response

Supply a valid symbol.

Severity

8

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