>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


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