Wayne, My intent was to eliminate the need to allocate, open, read, and parse the parmlib and read directly from SYMDEF call of rexx. ;-) Could save some lines of code and CPU...
Itschak On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: > I would assume the issue is that the code in MSI and NIP that reads the > parmlib members doesn't have support for expansion of buffers, recall that > PARMLIB is limited to 80 byte records, and if symbol substitution results > in IPL failure, you have a major problem. > > =============================================== > Wayne Driscoll > Omegamon DB2 L3 Support/Development > wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com > =============================================== > > > > Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > 02/27/2009 09:05 AM > Please respond to > IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > To > [email protected] > cc > > Subject > Re: SYMDEF length limitations > > > > > > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
