Skip Robinson wrote: [snip] Let's just KISS: increase the allowable string length to 256. That should be plenty for any well-designed application. [snip]
I would say 4K would be a better number. If you wanted to pass two path names, an input and an output for instance, that would easily use up your 256 limit even though the parm strings themselves would be easy to read and understand. If someone is going to take the time, money and trouble to fix this, they may as well make the buffer so large that only extremely badly designed programs will run into the limitation. As you point out, abuse of the large parm string may occur, but that's shouldn't be JCLs concern, it should be the program designer's. Robin Murray Tel: (902) 453-7300 x4177 Cell: (902) 430-0637 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
