On 24-May-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Black) wrote: > >And why would you expect an application programmer writing in COBOL to even > >know that manual exists? Why should he/she even know it's possible for > >the programs to be invoked by anything other than EXEC PGM=... )where a > >100-byte parm limit has existed forever)? > > > And why do you expect that COBOL programmer is even aware of the > 100-byte JCL limitation? The JCL Reference is a big manual
In my experience it doesn't come up. It's easy enough to put extensive parms into the card reader and read them as 80 column images. What's the advantage in having long complex parms passed by JCL into the linkage division? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
