On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:26:01 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:

>On 17 Dec 2008 14:37:47 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
>>>Do you mean just define the COBOL FD as RECORD CONTAINS 0 TO 32756 
>>>CHARACTERS and then use LRECL=32760 as a JCL override for a file no matter 
>>>what it's variable max length is?
>>
>>I don't believe you need the JCL override.
>
>You DO because of the terminal **&* of the compiler/runt-time
>designers.
>>-
They probably used the same validation code for output, where
it makes sense, and for input, where an inequality would
suffice.

-- gil

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