VMS Help MESSAGE, /SYMBOLS  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Controls whether global symbols are present in the object module.
    By default, object modules are created with global symbols.

    Format

      /SYMBOLS

      /NOSYMBOLS

1 - Example

  $ MESSAGE/FILE_NAME=COBOLMF /OBJECT=MESPNTR/SYMBOLS COBOLMSG

      This MESSAGE command creates the object module MESPNTR.OBJ,
      which contains global symbols.