> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday 12 May 2005 19:59 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PARM= > > In a recent note Ray Mullins said: > > > Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:03:50 -0700 > > > > Because...PARM was originally intended for passing of small > values of data. > > If you needed to pass more data than 100 bytes, that was a > job for a > > control > > > That was then. This is now.
So? I'm not against lengthening - I just don't see the need for 5 digit lengths. > > card data set. Only the C/C++ compiler (from what I've seen in my > > experience) has that capability. > > > Which capability? Pass or Receive? Receive. And I am against a control card option as suggested earlier. > For examples of both, I've routinely passed much over 100 > bytes from Rexx "address ATTCHMVS ASMA90" to HLASM, which > properly received and processed it. I've written many an assembler program that calls compilers, and utilities, including the DD card overide parameters. > I know, painfully, because when I attempted to report a HLASM > bug (several releases ago; now well fixed), HLASM support > asked me to re-create it with JCL. > When JCL choked on the PARM length, I fired off a SEV2 on the > JCL error message, citing HLASM's request that I supply the > equivalent JCL. (The bug did _not_ depend on the PARM > length; I was ultimately able to re-create it with a parm > <=100 characters.) ISTR you bringing this up a while ago...which means that it has probably bubbled to the top of someone's think-about list. :-) I think we agree, except for the length issue. I'll support any extension beyond 100; I'm just not wedded to 4 and 5 digit lengths if IBM has to jump through proverbial hoops to do it. Later, Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
