On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:15:57 -0800, Ulrich Krueger wrote:

>You know, guys, as much as I'd like to see the JCL PARM expanded in length,
>I'd hate to see the problems that will arise from it. Face it, how many of
>your programs that process PARM values have a hard-coded 100-byte storage
>area to receive the PARM string into? Just about all of them, I bet.
>
Have you any real data to support your "just about all"?  I
have never encountered a problem invoking programs (including
IBM products) from Rexx ATTCHMVS (assembler CALL would be the
same) with PARM>100 chars.  Any program which would fail
as you suggest with a long EXEC PARM= would likewise fail
when invoked by CALL or ATTCHMVS; it's intrinsically broken.

-- gil

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