On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:54:47 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>On 7 March 2012 18:27, Charles Mills wrote:
>> Many long threads here on that one ...
>>
>> What's worse, "parm" means two different things.
>>
>> There is a limit of 100 characters on the operand of PARM=.
>>
>> But I was referring to "parameters" in the more general sense of, as the
>> manual says, "The parameter field consists of two types of parameters:
>> positional parameters and keyword parameters. All positional parameters must
>> precede all keyword parameters. Keyword parameters follow the positional
>> parameters."
>
>Even worse, they probably should've been calling them arguments all
>these years...
>
>> Some of those "parms" such as PATH= can have operands with a length of 255
>> characters.
>
>No, uh, argument.
>
No, uh, the passage Charles quoted appears verbatim in article "3.1.1
Parameter Field" of:
Title: z/OS V1R13.0 MVS JCL Reference
Document Number: SA22-7597-15
(or have you submitted an RCF that will appear in a future edition?)
Op. cit. limits PATH to 254 characters, but who's counting? Anyway,
that's closer to 255 than to 100.
-- gil
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