Maybe make that XPARM - you can just bet there will be JES exits (at least) out there somewhere that go looking for "PARM".
I don't have any further substantive offering to those of Peter and Jeffrey - I can see potential problems everywhere. Man it must be a bitch trying to shoe-horn in changes so thay are backward compatible - just look at all the contortions required for ARCHLVLV 2. Shane ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey D. Smith" > Just off the cuff, I am thinking that a new JCL keyword, > like PARMX= should be used to declare that the program > really understands the longer parameter string. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

