In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 13 10:47:30 2005 > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:42:00 -0700 > > Interesting information. Thanks. > How does the '+' continuation character mentioned earlier in this thread interact with line numbers? (I avoid line numbers, rigorously, so this is just from curiosity.)
And why can't QUOTE be continued? Is there a syntactic ambiguity with '+', or is this just another adverse manifestation of Conway's Law? > Didn't realize that LRECL > 80 was supported. (Everything I am about to say > about the FTP doc is based on the 2.10 doc which is what I have most readily > at hand. It may be obsolete.) > Ummm. Last time I tried, FTP quietly truncated my command at 256 characters. I circumvented with a chain of "CD" commands before the GET/PUT. Quiet truncation of commands and arguments is a reprehensible assimilation from VM/CMS culture, not suitable for a robust computing environment, such as z/OS aspires to be. The phrase "radically immature" comes to mind. I consider the possibility of overwriting an unintended file because the path name has been truncated a data integrity exposure -- the most frequent topic in CERT bulletins is buffer overruns; truncating the command protects only the FTP agent's code, not the user's data. This is worthy of a PMR if I ever get a round tuit. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Jim Keohane (MPI) > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:10 PM > > 1: Instead of instream //INPUT DD * or //SYSIN DD * (or whatever) just > point DD to a sequential file/dataset with line length or record length > greater than 72. Say 200. That will be your command file. > Don't say 257. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
