It's 2016! z13's go to what? 3TB real? Make it 64 or even 80 bytes! Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sort for not there? DLM can have a quoted string value for using non-alphanumeric/national characters, and ISPF edit allows one to enter non-printable hex characters into that two-byte quoted string pretty easily, so theoretically you can use any 2-byte hex value you want for DLM. But for arbitrary input (e.g., a GOFF-format assembler object output file) , as Gil pointed out there is no way to tell a priori what 2-byte value to use which does not occur in the data stream. Allowing a 4-byte (or more) DLM value would improve the odds against a mistaken EOF signal, though not of course eliminate them. I'd vote for a 64-byte limit myself, but even that may be short-sighted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
