[Default] On 8 Mar 2017 07:17:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Nims,Alva John , Al) wrote:
>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! I think 72 is the continuation column because 73 - 80 are the sequence number columns. Clark Morris > > >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
