Hi,

you can use PARMDD syntax:

//ST010 EXEC PGM=MYPGM,PARMDD=PARMIN
...
//PARMIN  DD *
SOMETHING UP TO 80
OTHER UP TO 80
....
so on
/*

JCL should concatenate N strings of xx characters, one for each PARMIN row.

Keep attention ! It removes trailing spaces from rows.

Best regards.
Max




Il giorno gio 8 mag 2025 alle ore 18:43 Binyamin Dissen <
[email protected]> ha scritto:

> How?
>
> On Thu, 8 May 2025 11:31:56 -0500 Steve Beaver
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> :>You can do a continuation
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>
> :>-----Original Message-----
> :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> :>Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen
> :>Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:24 AM
> :>To: [email protected]
> :>Subject: Limit to length of PARM= on a START command?
> :>
> :>Interesting. There is a limit to the length of PARM= on a START
> statement.
> :>The
> :>maximum length appears to be related to the JCL statement
> :>
> :>// PARM=
> :>
> :>where the parm has to fit up to column 71 (71-8)=63).
> :>
> :>Didn't find this documented.
>
> --
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>
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