On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:04:14 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: > >I don't know what aboriginal refers to in this context, but the answer to >the first question is "yes". And the behavior has existed since the >introduction of system symbols. > That's what I meant by "aboriginal".
>>It is not OK to truncate silently. Would you even dare to suggest that >>if in a JCL EXEC PARM='...&FOO....' the resulting PARM should be silently >>truncated to 100 bytes if substitution were to cause it to be longer? > >Yes I certainly do dare. This is practical reality. If a group of >customers think it is OK, then it can be OK, even if you choose to >disagree, especially when it has no impact to you in the absence of >exploitation. You are free not to use a function if you do not like its >behavior. There is a cost vs benefit tradeoff in everything all of us do. > "What's good for General Bullmoose is good for America." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
