On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:58:40 -0700, M. Ray Mullins wrote:
>
>Note that the MVS Assembler Services Guide still documents that the
>maximum of instream data is 254
>
That's horribly obsolete, perhaps contradicted by other publications.  I'll
submit an RCF.  Assembler Services Guide should not contain an
explicit number but a citation of the publication containing the current
value.

> ... and JCL records must be exactly 80. I
>
I'm skeptical about that-- I suspect the reader pads to 80 and ignores
data beyond 80.

>haven't tried larger than 254 yet…I should add this to my little INTRDR
>toolkit program.
>
>I just tried a VB/255 data set for a SUBMITLIB as a test and it worked
>perfectly.
>
>If you're thinking about PROCLIBs, though, those don't work, they must
>be F(B)/80.


>On 2023-04-25 12:43, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>> Curious, I did a search and found:
>> <https://www.ibm.com/docs/pl/zos/2.5.0?topic=consider-jes2-disk-reader-support>
>>      ...SUBMITLIB ... The concatenation supports any format PDS (LRECL and 
>> RECFM) that
>>      can be used to pass JCL into input processing.
>>
>> That assertion is a nullity: It supports any supported attributes.  Where 
>> are those
>> explicitly listed?

-- 
gil

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