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

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