9999 is to large if it's stored in timer units. If that isn't an anachronism, I don't know what is.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 1:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB card format On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >TIME=1440 turns off the timing -- This depends on whether there is an exit >controlling the use of 1440 > I wonder why the designers didn't choose 9999, the largest possible 4-digit value, to mean "forever"? (OTHH, I get cognitive dissonance with products that use 0 to mean "unlimited".) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
