I still say dump the request for a change to PARM length max for JCL and/or the
PARMX=. For __NEW__ functionality, implement POSIX environment variables into
the JCL. Perhaps using the current SET syntax! Then __NEW__ programs can do an
getenv() type call to grab the environment variable(s) they are interested in.
The plus of this is that others, in other threads, have wanted to be able to
get the contents of SET variables in their programs. Again, this would allow
that. But it would take a change to the converter/intepreter as well as the
initiator. Another plus is that you could use this instead of parsing the PARM
field.
For example, instead of:
// EXEC PGM=MYPROG,
// PARM='VAR1=VAL1,VAR2=VAL2,VAR7=VAL7,VAR3=VAL3'
You could have:
// SET VAR1=VAL1
// SET VAR2=VAL2
// SET VAR7=VAL7
// SET VAR3=VAL3
// EXEC PGM=MYPROG
and MYPROG would simply do a getenv("VAR1") to get the value of VAR1 and so on.
No parsing of the PARM= needed.
It would also simplify using UNIX programs because the environment variables
could be set in JCL (and as symbolic parameters passed into a PROC) instead of
somehow getting them in via the //STDENV statement (which doesn't do symbolic
substitution).
Just my from-left-field idea, yet again.
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