> It's absurd that the various SUBMIT commands, TSO, ISPF, Rexx, > and OMVS enforce FB,80,
REXX? As for ISPF, it uses TSO SUBMIT, and that's where the fix has to go. Is there an RFE? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 9:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using environment variables in JCL and USS On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:32:55 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:15:25 +0000, kekronbekron wrote: > >>Are you able to share this, Paul? >> >I no longer have the code. > I'll suggest that as a PoC you try allocating your SYSIN to a data set, RECFM=VB to see whether it meets your need. It's absurd that the various SUBMIT commands, TSO, ISPF, Rexx, and OMVS enforce FB,80, a convention designed to accommodate devices that haven't been marketed in this century. >I used ISPF Edit facilities to get LRECL, RECFM of the Edited file. > >BPXWDYN or ALLOCATE SYSOUT INTRDR with similar attributes. > >Extracted lines and wrote one-by-one with EXECIO. >(Why doesn't silly ISPF support stem variables!?) > >In an earlier approach I used FTP; FILETYPE=JES, JESRECFM, JESLRECL. > >Both successful. > > >>On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at 23:32, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:33:59 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >>> >>> > SWAG but have you tried a trailing semicolon? Or quotes around the value? >>> > I found an example on the web for another product: >>> > ENVAR C='X Y' >>> > ...which sorta suggests that the quotes might work. Might try both >>> > flavors of quote, too. >>> >>> Or, RECFM=VB. >>> >>> I wrote an Edit macro which allocates INTRDR with the attributes of the >>> file being edited in order to avoid the 80-characte limit. Why didn't IBM >>> think of that? I consider quiet truncation to be data corruption. -- 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
