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No! For compatibility, it should be exactly the venerable
format produced by the CALL macro, etc. I'd have no problem
with a different keyword for longer PARMs, provided that
keyword also tolerated shorter PARMs. And I'd have little
problem with a PARMLIB option to be used by by phobic or
atavistic systems programmers to prohibit use of that keyword
or set a ceiling on PARM size; we're a lab shop; our sysprogs
are accommodating.
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You could also make PARM= and NEWPARM= mutually exclusive. Then you only
provide ONE parm string. While some programs will choke on a long parm,
others might be completely unaffected.
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