>There was plenty discussion here of the new-fangled facility to support symbol >resolution in instream data sets, but I don't recall whether this specifically >was discussed:
>What will happen (JES2, specifically) if substituting a symbol in an instream >data set causes a record to exceed the otherwise LRECL (over which the >programmer now has little control)?: Oh how I wish there was just an option for the JCL stream to be RECFM=VB,LRECL=255 (or more). If this was the case we could get rid of the arcane continuation rules, and issues like symbol substitution mostly overcome. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
