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.
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