On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:13:39AM -0400, Bob Shannon wrote: > Seriously, we're talking about a parameter. I agree that 256 bytes ought > to be sufficient.
Indeed. I can't recall where I read it, but someone suggested that program designers avoid constraints that are powers of ten, for they are likely to be seen as artificial constraints rather than legitimate limits imposed by the design. There are good technical reasons for a 256-byte limit on parm length (MVC), and that would seem to be a good dividing line between what belongs on a PARM statement and what belongs elsewhere just for the sake of manageability. What would be a real advance is being able to provide SYSIN to a started task or other JCL proc without having to go through the gyrations of having a separate dataset... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
