I always parse right out of the parameter area passed to me by the caller. At worst I store the value in R1 so I can get back to it. And if I was going to store the data, I would GETMAIN the area based on the halfword length parameter and then move it.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JCL parms 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
