-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)
<SNIPPAGE> Whatever technique used to pass a long parm is not going to be safely handled byt the old, standard parm passing scheme because a long parm passed that way will break old, standard programs. Some new technique that can be verified by new programs is needed or a lot of stable production jobs are going to die. I know some people see that as hobbling z/OS with severe limitations of the S/360 past, but I see maintaining compatability as a source of the great stability of z/OS and its ancestors. Thee is an obvious need for lifting the 100-byte limit on parms, but it needs to be done in a way that allows old programs to continue to work. <SNIP> <VBG> Now how did they implement that // OPTION again in DOS? </VBG> Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
