But, even with DIAG 8, the limit is 240 chars for the command. 'CP MSG ....' silently truncates the message call diag 8,'MSG ...' gives a REXX syntax error if the command is too long.
Kris, IBM Belgium, VM customer support > On Wednesday, 08/02/2006 at 01:10 MST, Don Russell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Gentry wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > > We use a Programmable Operator to run certain functions. We send a > > > "command" to the PropOp using > > > the MSG command. Is there a maximum length the sent MSG can be? If > > > so, can it be changed somewhere? > > > We're having a problem getting some things to work that used to work > > > on VM 4.3 (and I thought was working > > > on 5.2). We're running VM 5.2 on a z9 box. > > > Thanks, > > > Steve G. > > From help cp msg... > > > > 1. If a message is issued from a CMS environment, the command and the > > message text cannot be longer than 240 characters. > But if it used to work on 4.3, then it should continue to work in 5.2. And > to answer Steve's question, no, you can't change the 240-character limit > on CMS commands. Better is to use e.g. diag(8,'MSG ....') to bypass CMS > command processing if possible. > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott
