The problem is that there just is no generic MODIFY format, and I guess there really is no universal console command format. Yes, yes, the next time they write MVS they should do a single parser shared among all commands, but unfortunately they did not do it for this MVS.
For MODIFY, the command I am most familiar with, EVERYTHING after the procname and so forth is passed to the application. I just verified this. For a test app I have, I entered /F procname,how now brown cow And verified that what the application received in the CIB was HOW NOW BROWN COW What a given application might choose to do with that is entirely up to that application, of course. No MVS-generic documentation is possible. (Other than "your results may vary.") Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, July 11, 2022 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it? On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:42:07 +0000, Peter Relson wrote: >Shmuel write >> A space in an operator command is the separator between operand and comment. > >"Can be", not "is". It depends on the command. > Is this clearly documented for each command? Does the doc cover the case of passing a string containing a blank as a command operand? "Don't do that!" is not a satisfactory answer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
