I guess when the utility was developed JCL was way simpler and test cases were limited.
After Gil raised the various gotchas, I wrote myself a PUTPDS program with a user defined delimiter. Eschewing 2 bytes means I can come up with a very random string such as !@#$%^&* ADD NAME=MEMBER. Not likely to be embedded in usual members. Now adding some bells and whistles. Not that I need it in retirement. Golf today. On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 12:47 AM Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: > In a single word, yes. > > And as has been stated, setting up "DLM=" requires, at times, a > scan of just the first several bytes of each logical record to > find what unique value(s) one can use. > > Steve Thompson > > On 4/15/2024 3:30 AM, <Thomas> <Berg> wrote: > > Just curious. Have anyone had problem with this delimiter problem in > real life with anything other than JCL in the inline input data? > > (I mean the alternative of a separate file seems to be a better/normal > alternative unless the inline data is at the end of the member/ds.) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
