On Jun 13, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
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.
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
IIRCC they did offer up a way to shorten the "verbs" so that the 100
character limitation was semi mute. They found out that you can't
bully IBM even within IBM:)
Ed
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