Strings of characters of the double-byte character set (DBCS) must be enclosed between a shift-out delimiter (‘0E’) and a shift-in delimiter (‘0F’). In this error, two shift-out characters were found without an intervening shift-in character, indicating that one DBCS string is nested within another DBCS string. The shift-out and shift-in characters themselves are not allowed within another DBCS string and should be removed from the inner DBCS string.

To correct the error, remove the characters ‘0E’ and ‘0F’ from around the inner (nested) DBCS string. For more information about DBCS strings and characters, see z/OS TSO/E CLISTs.