In <4f439d1e-1523-49ed-815c-6fa3dcd87...@comcast.net>, on 05/27/2012
   at 10:36 AM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> said:

>I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO 
>product called PCF.  If memory serves me one of the feature that 
>PCF offered was to be able to stack commands and to separate them 
>it used the field mark key as a delimiter.

No; you could use FM as a separator without PCF. As I recall, PCF
allowed you to use other characters, e.g., semicolon, as a separator,
but did not disable the recognition of the FM.

>Although admittedly the biggest  feature of PCF was to do data 
>set  dasd pooling 

Not command accounting?

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