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we will definitely also support a keyword to give the number of fields
Regarding ACCTINFO, yes, your example is exactly what I had in mind. In addition, your suggestion regarding a keyword to return the number of accounting info parms in use is also a good idea, perhaps GETSYSWORD(MAXACTINFO). Then as you stated, we could use subscripts ACTINFO(1), etc. to retrieve each needed parm and know the upper bounds.
We have a question about the ACCTINFO request:
Given JCL with
//JOB1 JOB (12A75,'DEPT/D58',706) ....
would you want GETSYSWORD(ACTINFO1) to return 12A75, GETSYSWORD(ACTINFO2) to return 'DEPT/D58' etc ?
also perhaps there should be a keyword that would return the number of ACCT fields? and perhaps then requests could be made for a specific field using a subscript?