> But I consider this highly phobic: no one has yet evinced > an existing program, not intentionally written as a > refutation, that behaves in a dangerous or mysterious > fashion simply because it was invoked with a long PARM.
There is an extensive discussion of the long PARM topic in the archives starting on May 12,2005, under the subjects PARM= and Re: PARM= . While this was being investigated, Karl Schmitz decided to look at some of IBM's APF authorized programs in SYS1.LINKLIB to see if he could find one which assumed that the parm length did not exceed 100. My recollection is that the first one he looked at (selected from a component in which he had prior expertise, not alphabetically) could behave incorrectly if the parm length was larger than 100. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
