And no real reason a program could not support 64ki-1 bytes. Not looking at the specs for "standard linkage" but there is no real good reason to treat the length as signed.
Beyond that would require a significant change in the linkage. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Question for COBOL users On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:10 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >PMFJI here but the limit with PARMDD is 32K I believe. JES/JCL limit is 100, >not 255. The COBOL questions is, does the compiler correctly process PARMDD >input > 255 characters, and if so which version(s)? Only V5+? I could >understand V4 not supporting it, but not V5+. > This is hardly such a novelty: for a half-century the Assembler CALL/LINK/ATTACH macro could invoke the compiler with up to 32Ki-1 bytes in PARM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
