On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:22:38 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote:
>
>a. the 100-character PARM limit isn't easy to increase, as the length of SWA
>control blocks is 176 bytes (due to SYS1.SYSJOBQE, IIRC)
>
Clearly, this limit isn't carved in stone, because CALL, LINK,
ATTACH, etc. allow PARM be several thousand bytes long.
>b. native support of symbol substitution in SYSIN data sets by the
>reader/converter/interpreter is a problem because JES2/JES3 readers "extract"
>in-line cards and store them separately from JCL in the SPOOL. So, if I'm
>not mistaken, the interpreter doesn't see in-line cards. Again, IIRC !
>
SMOP. The current multipass design was to support tiny machines in
the previous century. It's long past time to replace it.
>If symbol substitution is added, it should be an option to prevent existing
>jobs to fail, ...
>
See my earlier comments:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0909&L=ibm-main&P=R60229
-- gil
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