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General Best Practices

The following list provides best practices to specify job fields that are longer than a standard OpenVMS command token.

• Use the DCL command line when creating or modifying few jobs that have no data fields longer than 255 characters.
• Use the Motif GUI when creating or modifying few jobs that have one or more data fields greater than 255 characters.
• Use prompting when creating or modifying a job from the DCL command line that has at least one data field greater than 255 characters. Depending on the fields used, you can initiate either full prompting or brief prompting.
• Design a command script to generate the jobs when creating or modifying many jobs.