In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
06/15/2008
at 09:07 PM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The above inserts the comma between (e.g) TOM and DICK. Suppose that I
>need a PARM of 80 characters which contains no commas anywhere in it?
Then you run it out to column 71[1], put a continuation character in
column 72[1] and continue it in the next record, per existing rules.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
06/15/2008
at 09:08 PM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I know that BSAM itself doesn't do the folding.
Then it doesn't get folded, because there is no TSO code between you and
the READ or CHECK macro.
>What I think happens is that the TSO service
What TSO service? The behavior is the same when you do the READ from your
own code. Is IEBGENER a TSO service?
[1] If IBM adds support for VB and long FB then the numbers would be
variable, but the technique would still apply.
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