On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:42:44 +0200, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote:

>I RTFMed before asking, but it looked strange to me that the length 
>of the variable value is forced by the length of the variable name...
>...

I think the logic was to prevent JCL errors when symbols were expanded.
Whether or not that is correct, it is a very frustrating limitation.

Pat O'Keefe

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