Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:29:40 -0800, retired mainframer wrote: >Wouldn't it be easier to take a command like LISTDS and paste a couple of >dozen (or hundred) DSNs between the parentheses and see when it finally >complains rather than see how many ways this thread can be hijacked. > Excellent

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:33:11 -0500, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >I believe a path can be up to 1024. > Sort of. IIRC, that's the value in the Users Guide, Command Ref., et al. But it's subject to change with new filesystypes. It might be different in a future OS release. Hopefully not smaller. Legacy

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-03-10 o 22:26, Paul Gilmartin pisze: Got my Black Team coat on. Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than that imposed by the aggregate length of the various operands? I think the limit is 32kB. Of course other limits, like p.6 "screen capacity" apply. However

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:26:13 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: :>Got my Black Team coat on. :>Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than that imposed by :>the aggregate length of the various operands? :>ISPF Command Shell imposes a

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I believe a path can be up to 1024. -teD   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 20:04 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: How long can a TSO command be? On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:27 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread retired mainframer
to:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 1:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: How long can a TSO command be? > > Got my Black Team coat on. > > Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than t

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Ed Gould
Paul: Too bad Schmuel isn't still around he could make the argument . The "design" "flaw" is embedded in the OS all over the place from start to finish. It would break existing code and some code (like TSO) that it would not work anymore as that is one of the many reasons TSO is dead (you

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:20:42 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: >On Mar 10, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> >> PARMDD is a kludge. They ought simply to have allowed a longer PARM. >> If PARMDD allows substitution of system symbols, that should have been >> supported likewise in EXEC PARM. >

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 10, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: PARMDD is a kludge. They ought simply to have allowed a longer PARM. If PARMDD allows substitution of system symbols, that should have been supported likewise in EXEC PARM. Paul: If you change the 255 character limit you will break the

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 March 2016 at 16:26, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than that imposed by the aggregate length of the various operands? IKJSCAN and IKJPARSE are probably what define this, though there may be

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:38:27 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >On 03/10/2016 04:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Got my Black Team coat on. >It depends. You doing SUBMIT? You feeding your JCL to the INTRDR >with JES2 or JES3? > I know that in JES2 only cols 1-72 of the source statement are processed.

Re: How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Steve Thompson
On 03/10/2016 04:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Got my Black Team coat on. Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than that imposed by the aggregate length of the various operands? ISPF Command Shell imposes a limit of 240. Absurdly small given that a PATH() for ALLOCATE may be

How long can a TSO command be?

2016-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Got my Black Team coat on. Is there any limit to the length of a TSO command other than that imposed by the aggregate length of the various operands? ISPF Command Shell imposes a limit of 240. Absurdly small given that a PATH() for ALLOCATE may be up to 255. Panel ISRTSOA accepts 3 x ZSCREENW