A software company that runs the same application
for multiple customers might get the customer name
from the PARM field, and then place that value into
an HTML tag, or a print line for a report, or a
title line for a display.
True, but it seems a little far fetched that a program would accept a
value like that as PARM= and blindly make the max length for it 100
bytes just because that is what JCL allows. Still, to be a problem, the
program would have to blindly move how ever many bytes the length field
indicates without any validation. Sounds like bad coding to me.
Not that I doubt there are programs that will have problems with the
larger parm, but I still believe they are a small minority
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
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