On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:40:44 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: >If the current JCL PARM format change from HW + 0-100 bytes >to HW + 100 bytes + FW for the new long parm + 0-??? bytes long parm, >are there any backward compatibility problems ? > There would be a lateral compatibility problem, in that the parm passed from JCL would have a format different from the parm passed by other languages, thereby violating one of the oldest conventions of OS/360.
Put the length of the parm, whatever length, in the HW. It's how all languages that support long parms now do it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
