On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:28:02 -0500, Scott Rowe wrote:

>Don't think JCL, think PARMLIB.  
>
Think...  PARMLIB...  Think...

OK.  I have thought PARMLIB.  What came to my mind was that the
substitution techniques used in JCL processing to substitute a
symbol value longer than that symbol's name ought to work equally
well if employed in PARMLIB processing.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach
>Subject: Re: SYMDEF length limitations
>
>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...

-- gil

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