My lousy $0.02 on this: 1. 71? Column 71 is the old "Continuation" column in JCL. 2. How would you code a 71 character DLM='-----71 Char----' when you already have to code "//name DD DATA,DLM='..." in the JCL, I HATE having to continue quoted strings, I never get it right!
Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today? >http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/ >5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html&request_locale=en > >I found this interesting: > ><quote> >New support is planned to be added to allow TSO/E user IDs to be eight >characters long. ></quote> > And I read: For JES2 in z/OS V2.3, JCL, ... The DLM keyword on SYSIN is extended from 2 characters to 18 characters to provide more granularity. "granularity"? Underreaching. It should be as big as possible to provide the programmer maximum confidence of no accidental match within the data. I'd suggest 71, probably the longest value in a SYSIN line. Why not JES3, also? -- 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
