Another solution is to add (e g) two blanks in front of every line.  (And
remove them at a convenient opportunity.)


Thomas Berg



Mundus Vult Decipi

Den tors 8 maj 2025 18:13Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> skrev:

> On Thu, 8 May 2025 12:29:30 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
> >    ...
> >Update: since few years the delimiter in can be 2 to 18 characters long.
> >(it applies to JES2, not JES3).
> >    ...
> (Some argument here for ISVs to test customer-facing JCL
> on both JES2 and JES3.
>
> >18 characters.
> >IMHO it's enough to find unique string.
> >
>  18 bytes from /dev/random.  10**43 possibilities.  Need to quote it.
> Does the 18 count paired apostrophes and ampersands?  JES
> lexical analysis is chaotic: Conway's Law.
>
> >It's more than enough to find a string which is not a part of any
> >programming language, command language or any human language.
> >Of course there's still possibility to use DD * for binary or generated
> >random data, but in real world I would call it very unlikely use of DD *.
> >
> I faced the task when the limit was 2, and I wanted to code an instream
>  NETDATA file for INDD.  I scanned for an absent  digraph.
>
> --
> gil
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