I believe a path can be up to 1024. -teD Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 20:04 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: How long can a TSO command be?
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:27 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >On 03/10/2016 04:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Got my Black Team coat on. >It depends. You doing SUBMIT? You feeding your JCL to the INTRDR >with JES2 or JES3? > I know that in JES2 only cols 1-72 of the source statement are processed. 73-80 are only listed; 81 and beyond vanish completely. FTP enforces a limit of 254. I believe this is an obsolete JES3 limit. SYSIN may be far longer; I've encountered no practical limit. Symbol substitution and continuation may result in a statement shorter or longer than the source. I'm idly curious (Black Team) what limit exists on the source. >Are you expecting your PARM= to be limited to 100 characters, or >would you like it to be more than that (PARMDD in the JCL REF >z/OS 2.1). > 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. >And, off the top of my head, TSO has a limit of 256 characters. >But I haven't needed to deal with that problem for a decade or so. > By experiment, ALLOCATE PATH supports longer, but I don't know how much longer, nor whether any limit exists in the API, at the READY prompt, or both. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
