AFAIR IBM will change the JCL limit in the future. Wasn't this discussed months ago.
After this there is a good chance that the Cobol-Compiler would follow Roland -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM. To the best of my knowledge, no current or (relatively recently past, i.e. OS/VS COBOL or later) compiler has created object code that "truncates" passed parameters to called subprograms. It *IS* true that the compiler itself may (as documented) only pay attention to the first 100 bytes of passed data, but that has nothing to do with object code created by it. NOTE: From VS COBOL II thru IBM COBOL for OS/390 & VM, the compiler was "single-sourced". Therefore, as the 100-byte limit is a JCL, not a VM or CMS restriction, this would surprise me BUT it may be that only 100 bytes for the compiler was the documented restriction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
