On Thu, 22 May 2008 14:46:23 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: >> Speaking of "80-column", when did JES2 overcome the >> fixed 80 restriction on SYSIN data sets? > >The short version: (1) Long ago for LRECL up to 254. >(2) z/OS 1.7 for LRECL up to 32K. The long version: > >We had an application that read LRECL=204 or 208 or >something like that in JES2 4.1. Note: That is JES2 >4.1, which was before JES2/NJE and before JES2/SP for >MVS/SP 1.3.0. > >So, that would have been on MVS 3.8 (with various SUs >installed, but of course they have nothing to do with >this issue). The timeframe for this was 1977-1978, but >this application was in production at least one year >before then, ...
Was this with RECFM=F or RECFM=V? (I consider RECFM=F an adjunct to the "80-column minds".} Circa 1995 (well after 1978) I encountered a serious problem with RECFM=V which was repaired briefly by OW10527, a massive change to make by PTF rather than on a release boundary, then regressed a few months later by OW16674 (apparently some customers preferred it broken). Very recently, I noticed that JES2 is back to the OW10527 behavior. OA08145, the "long SYSIN" APAR may have incidentally repaired the damage reintroduced by OW16674. I hope customers afflicted with "80-column minds" don't prevail on IBM to break it again. To this end, is there anywhere documentation on how the attributes of the SYSIN data set as perceived by the problem program reading it are determined by the JCL attributes of the internal reader and the characteristics of the instream data? OW10527 provides a table, but there's good reason to believe that's obsolete, and I know of no instance in a reference manual? (Wasn't there some complaint here recently about needing to search APARs to discover documentation?) -- 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
