Re: Can't Open IFS file problem - Resolved

Egads James!  We agree wholeheartedly and without reservation!

It should be a shop standard to ban the use of CALL on any SBMJOB, 
WRKJOBSCDE, etc if the CALL has so much as one parameter.  Instead of 
CALL, create it's own command.

Rob Berendt
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> That's why I said the following (copy & paste from my original message):
>
>    If you want to make it longer than that, you have to either pass a
> variable from another program, or you need to make a command
> interface for your program.


My apologies. I wasn't following the thread all that closely, and missed
that part entirely.

Personally, I've never understood why anybody would fail to provide one
for ANY *PGM intended to be called from the command line or used in a
SBMJOB. If the *PGM's parameter structure is simple enough that it CAN be
called directly from the command line, then writing a *CMD for it is
almost trivial (and yet still makes it a lot easier to use);
contrapositively, if a *CMD is non-trivial to write, then its *PGM is
almost certainly impossible (or at least impractical) to use from the
command line without one.

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