On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:20:42 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: >On Mar 10, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> >> PARMDD is a kludge. They ought simply to have allowed a longer PARM. >> If PARMDD allows substitution of system symbols, that should have been >> supported likewise in EXEC PARM. > >Paul: > >If you change the 255 character limit you will break the entire OS. >It was a design flaw from day 1, although you would never get the >designers to acknowledge it. > Which "255 character limit"? And "break the entire OS" is a pretty sweeping statement. But I suppose that if it prevented IPL the entire OS could be considered broken. But surely they could fix that.
Storage was expensive when some of those limits were set. It's now almost a million times cheaper. It's time that was exploited. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
