Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Probably because 40+ years ago, when this was designed, nobody in
their wildest dreams could envision a need for a PARM longer than 100
bytes. :-)
I doubt it. There were several components, Assembler F for one, where
specifying most options would require more than 100 bytes. The limit
is linked to the size of the system job queue record size, and someone
apparently decided it wouldn't be cost effective to provide for
continuation logic.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
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Most default/desirable options for the Assembler and the compilers, etc.
could be set at System Generation time, avoiding those long parm
strings. And as I recall, SYS1.JOBQUEUE had a record size limit but it
was significantly larger that 100 bytes; 1024 comes to mind, but I may
be wrong there (it's just been too long for the little grey cells.)
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