On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:24:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >When long PARMS have been discussed here previously, the reactionaries >and IBM loyalists have objected, "Oh, no! We can't have that! Suddenly >programs that clearly failed on JCL errors will instead program check >on buffer overruns and our help desk bandwidth will be strained."
Really? I don't remember anyone saying that. What I remember seeing is that any program that accepts a PARM should be coded so that it can be called from a program that might pass a longer PARM. Indeed, when I started as an application programmer in 1970, that was the standard that my code was expected to follow. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
