On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:10 PM, john gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is true, but it is also a messy maintenance nightmare.  This time my 
> sympathies are entirely with Gil.  The HLASM, for example, imposes no such 
> restrictions on the content of [at most 1024-byte] MNOTE text continued from 
> card image to card image.  These restrictions are arbitrary, ugly, and 
> unnecessary.
>
> They need be fixed in just one place, and they should long since have been 
> fixed there.

Unfortunately, when it comes to JCL, that applies to *so many* aspects...

<prepares for the flame war>
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zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

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