On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 08:52:26 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:47:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>And ISTR that the number of control >>statements in SYSIN once needed to be declared in PARM. > >I don't remember that, so I looked on bitsavers. There I found >http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/os/R19_Jun70/GC28-6586-11_Utilities_Rel_19_Jun70.pdf >the utilities manual for OS/360 release 19, dated June, 1970. > >I find no such requirement listed in that manual, or even a reference >to a PARM that IEBGENER will accept. > I stand corrected. I was misremembering MAXNAME, MAXFLDS, MAXGPS, and MAXLITS. What i think I got right was that the programmer must indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs.
Nowadays I'd expect such a utility to read SYSIN into memory and perform the calculation itself. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
