RE: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Thanks Jon.

I for one would NOT like to see a 378-wide compile-able source area. I'm not even that much fond of expanding it to 100-wide. No less than 80, thanks, but not too much wide..

Not just for me, I'd have to maintain somebody else's code...

Alan



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Subject: Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

Printers have a limit - but any limit is arbitrary and if IBM increased to 378 people would still bitch about having any limit.

What about this who actually print spool files?

Anyway - all I'm saying is that there is more to it than simply increasing the line width.


On 2013-10-08, at 12:00 PM, Jack Callahan <jjcllhn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They may do that in the end but there are some issues. One has always
been the number of third party tools that mine the compiler listing for data.
Assuming the listing still has to fit in 132 (there has to be some
finite limit for that) then the compiler would have to line wrap and
that could present additional challenges for the miners. Not
impossible but the downside has tended to outweigh the plus.

Culling the compiler listing implies working with spool files, so the
physical limitation of printer/5250 session width don't really apply,
do they?

There is a finite limit- printer files can be created with a width of
378 columns in i 7.1. Not advocating going that wide, but there's
certainly room for expansion from 73 characters without wrapping
source lines on compiler listings.

IBM has addressed a similar issue with DDL source in 6.1, adding a
MARGINS parameter to the RUNSQLSTM command to accommodate wider SQL statements.
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