In <0604180454558267.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 10/10/2013 at 03:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Best of all would be to restore control to the programmer: allow >RECFM and/or LRECL to coexist with * or DATA on the DD statement >(presently they're mutex). Those values, if coded, should be merged >with the DCB at OPEN. An oversize record, either read directly from >INTRDR or created by substitution should cause a JCL error You can't get JCL error for a condition detectable only at tun time. IMHO, the best way to handle substitution beyond LRECL is to drive the SYNAD exit. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN