Rick Fochtman wrote:
Probably because 40+ years ago, when this was designed, nobody in their wildest dreams could envision a need for a PARM longer than 100 bytes. :-)
I doubt it. There were several components, Assembler F for one, where specifying most options would require more than 100 bytes. The limit is linked to the size of the system job queue record size, and someone apparently decided it wouldn't be cost effective to provide for continuation logic.
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