Well, who's counting indeed, but my JCL reference says The pathname: - Has the form: /name1/name2/name3/.../namen - Begins with a slash. - Has a length of 1 through 255 characters. The system checks the length after substituting for any symbols and before compressing any consecutive slashes.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
