On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:32 -0600, Wayne Driscoll 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. > Surely it's straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel to enforce such a length limit on symbol values when any number of similarly fatal syntax errors can yet be introduced by substituting symbol values, even as fundamental as SYMDEF absent or unwittingly deleted.
And to enforce the misguided restriction on other users of system symbols is throwing the baby out with the bath. -- 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
