(I tried answering this earlier. LISTSERV bounced it because of an attachment. I resubmitted without the attachment, but I'm not seeing it. So, once again:)
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
