[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

[Dave Froble]

On 6/27/2022 1:18 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Enlighten me.  I cannot think of one reason why ...

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