On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:29:02 -0500, John McKown wrote:

>I think the reason that PARM remains as-is and the new PARMDD implemented
>is due to the format of JCL internal text. Internal text allows for a
>maximum length of 255 . Which explains why the value of PATH on a DD is a
>max of 255 characters.
> 
But why does BPXWDYN which presumably doesnt go through JCL internal
text enforce the same limit?  Does it just not want to humiliate JCL?

Isn't the count field on a DYNALLOC TU 16 bits?

-- gil

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