On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:48:02 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >In a JES2 environment, DLM= can be up to and including 8 >characters (JES3 is limited to 2, not sure of JES3+). > Why is JES3 so retarded? Useful features tend to be added to JES2 earlier than JES3.
>In that case, what odds are there of coming up with a safe string? > Almost certainty for any reasonable file size. The interesting question then is, "What's the most efficient way to discovedr a safe string?" However, IEBUPDTE has no sort of DLM option, so there's no way to protect data lies beginning with with "./" It's puzzling that the IEBUPDTE designers never foresaw that problem. Consider, letting the Devil provide the test case: /*Rexx ./ADD perverse comment */ say 'Hello, World!' -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
