On Mon, 19 May 2025 10:16:02 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >There is nothing in JCL for calling a program with multiple parameters. Even >in TSO the CPPL points to a single parameter string, from which the program >normally relies on parse services to extract positional and keyword >parameters. only in Unix does the program receive multiple parameters. > JCL and CPPL, yes, but aren't you familiar with the CALL, LINK, ATTCH, and XCTL macros? Do you consider it likewise "Too bad they didn't do something similar for": o The first parameter? o Every parameter?
>It's prudent to validate parameters, but hardly customary. Sturgeon's Law >applies. The code that I've seen ranges from ghastly to excellent, with most >somewhere in between, and I can't think of any rule of best practice that >doesn't get violated. > >________________________________________ >On Mon, 19 May 2025 02:36:47 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>Yes, which is why IM provided for controlling long parameters for authorized >>programs. Too bad they didn't do something similar for AC(0). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
