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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

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