Paul Gilmartin wrote:
In a recent note, Bill Klein said:
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:07:51 -0600
There have been previous requests for COBOL to have the same type of DD that
PL/I has had for years (and that LE has recently introduced) to avoid this.
However, there certainly is none right now.
There was a flurry of excitement (but not unanimous support) in
this list many months ago when an IBM employee hinted that a
relaxation of the 100-character limit might be possible. Is this
still under consideration? can we get a status update?
Certainly a relaxation of the JCL limit is a better use of resources
than each product's supplying its peculiar alternative. And, to my
knowledge, none of the alternatives provides for symbol substitution
which is so valuable in the JCL PARM.
YA alternative is a Rexx wrapper which can provide a PARM of up to
32KiBytes, but no convenient symbol substitution.
In a recent post I pointed out the availability of a new LE service:
* CEE3PR2 callable service - returns up to 32K bytes
of program parms; not sure how to specify those parms
yet, but this seems to lay the groundwork for the
future
Perhaps the other shoe will drop soon.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
