All good points. Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 11:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:04:40 -0800, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >Well, who's counting indeed, but my JCL reference says > >The pathname: ... >- Has a length of 1 through 255 characters. ... > I stand corrected; I misread earlier in the same section: Each directory or filename: Is preceded by a slash (/). The system treats any consecutive slashes as a single slash. ... Has a length of 1 through 254 characters, not including the slash. But now I've read it more carefully and submitted the RCF: Hello, MHVRCFS In: Title: z/OS V1R13.0 MVS JCL Reference Document Number: SA22-7597-15 12.48.2 Subparameter Definition pathname Is incomplete, perhaps misleading. The description appears to prohibit the following which are in fact allowed: o A pathname need not contain a filename; it may consist solely of directories, in which case it refers to a directory. o If (and only if) a pathname refers to a directory, it may end with a slash. The following may be implicit, or perhaps needs clarification: o The list of directories may be empty; the path may consist of only a filename, in which case it refers to a file in the root directory; or of only a slash, in which case it refers to the root directory itself. The following appear to be permitted, but are in fact invalid: o A slash may not appear in a directory or filename; it may be used only as a separator between directories and the filename. o The forms "." and ".." may not be used as filenames; these are reserved for directory names. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
