On 2014-09-17, at 08:28, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >> Likewise, I wish the ISPF SUBMIT command would warn of truncation and >> provide an option to cancel. > > Hmmm, another one of my pet peeves! > I call it a data integrity problem.
> zSecure can handle SUBMIT for JCL with long records (up to 251 characters, > AFAIK). > In days of yore, there was a 254-byte limit. Many utilities remain afflicted by nostalgia. > Apparently they have their own dirty version of ISPF SUBMIT. When I want to > copy the generated JCL + SYSINs for later future submission, I need to > reformat all to a puny 80 cols and [still remember to] place commas at the > right places for line continuation... Yuck... > Especially fun in a quoted string. > You can always write something in Assembler, COBOL, whatever to place long > records in SYSOUT=(?,INTRDR), but ... > Mostly I submit from Solaris by FTP (which still enforces the LRECL=254 limit). But I have an EDIT macro. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
