WTF? TSO has supported LRECL=255 for over half a century. Don't be confused by IBM shipping code in an archaic form factor.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to use LISTDSI from Rexx under Unix shell? On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:04:06 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >More appropriately, since my ALLOC of SYSEXEC to a PATH specified >FILETYPE(TEXT), it seems to me that should signal to the system (whoever >creates and opens the SYSEXEC DCB) that the data in that file are >presumptively RECFM=V,LRECL=(some reasonable maximum like 4096). > When have you ever seen a 4096-column keypunch? 80 is the only reasonable value compatible with antiquated art, HLASM SYSIN, etc. >I will try out both LRECL on the existing ALLOC and the BPXWDYN method and see >which works. > I wrote nastily, from memory, in my BPXWDYN suggestion. Closer, but still from memory: ADDRESS TSO "call *(bpxwdyn) 'concat DDLIST(SYSEXEC,DDname2[,DDnamex...])'" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
