On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 14:00:24 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I am 99% certain that the 100 character limitation has always been a JCL >restriction, not a "linkage" restriction. Two consenting programs can pass >whatever they want in R1, including a pointer to a "long" character string. > OK. I'll add in my RCF, "Charles is 99% certain ..." If callers are unauthorized, no integrity violation is possible. If callers are authorized, they can be trusted.
TSO CALL enforces a 100-character limit syntactically, and does not support PARMDD. But the Guide ought to mention TSO, not with the "mainly" cop out. >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 10:35 AM > >In Program Management: User's Guide and Reference" I read: >"[LONGPARM] applies mainly to programs that are invoked using a JCL EXEC >statement or a z/OS UNIX EXECMVS callable service." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
