-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal
On 4 Nov 2009 09:02:35 -0800, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) wrote: >The danger of a PARMX in JCL that passes parms greater than 100 bytes >is two fold. > >1. A specific JCL will have an EXEC statement that invokes the program >with PARMX= without someone having tested the program to verify that >it can handle that PARM length. This is sloppy programming and the >installation deserves what it gets. > >2. An installation will either change all JCL to use PARMX instead of >PARM or require it for new JCL without verifying that the programs can >handle it. Again this might be considered poor management because a >mass change is made to an interface without testing. We can't protect all idiots from themselves. <snip> It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. -- Robert Heinlein ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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