No. IBM chose not to break thousands upon thousands of programs that were
perfectly happy with 100 byte parm fields, provided via JCL.
They added a new mechanism for those program, where 100 bytes was not
sufficient.
<snip>
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:16:33 -0600, Juergen Kehr wrote:
>
>since a while we're using the new PARMDD keyword for our DB2 subsystems.
>
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/475/756/7ab.jpg
... what the users wanted was a PARM on the EXEC statement longer than 100
bytes.
Somehow, IBM couldn't understand.
</snip>
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