On Fri, 15 May 2020 15:43:34 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I hate that URL mangling! >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa500/bpxbatr.htm > And that one didn't get mangled. It's the Command Ref.
>IBM Knowledge Center > > Home -> z/OS 2.1.0 -> z/OS UNIX System Services -> z/OS UNIX System Services > User's Guide -> The z/OS shells -> Using z/OS UNIX from batch, TSO/E, and > ISPF -> The BPXBATCH utility -> Passing parameter data to BPXBATCH -> > Guidelines for defining STDPARM > But that's the User's Guide. Rules belong in the Ref. In-stream seems to be the exception that proves the rule, but what rule applies to non-in-stream? IBM screwed it up. And there's no upward-compatible recovery path. Perhaps an entirely different DDNAME. >______________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 11:08 AM > >>"For in-stream data sets: with the SH option, trailing blanks are not >>truncated. Records in in-stream data sets are concatenated with blanks as >>separator characters, and the string remaining after the SH token is passed >>as a single argument to a /bin/sh -c command. For the PGM option, the string >>is divided not only at line boundaries but also at horizontal white space >>within a line. " -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
