Charles, That's good, 254 chars, you ave several ways to handle it ...
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
