[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-06-24, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2022-06-23 13:43:18 +0000, David Jones said:
>
>> On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 11:59:22 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> As for your process creation... The PQL stuff is one of those areas 
>>> where the argument is optional, where the defaults are fickle, and 
>>> where the PQL list really shouldn't be optional.
>> 
>> If they go to fix that, they should also drop the 63 character limit on 
>> the image name argument.
>
> OpenVMS supports this feature via the SET FILE/ALIAS command.
>
> I'm sure the SET FILE /ALIAS=GENERATE=UUID {ODS-5 path} command can be added.
>
> Then you can enter the generated UUID into the image file path argument.
>
> We can undoubtedly work logical names into this, but you'll have to 
> re-enter the logical name at boot.
>

What we _really_ need are logical names whose name (not contents)
can be specified as a UTF-8 character sequence... :-)

Simon.

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