On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 20:07 -0800, John Ehrman wrote:
> The reason HLASM upper-cases macro names is historic: in the early days all
> PDS members had upper-case names, and you had to "play games" (such as
> doing your own BLDL and STOW) to get anything different.
>
> If you believe mixed-case support is worth pursuing, submit a request
> through your local IBM rep.
>
> (I used to have fun creating member names with a blank in the middle, so
> that other programs would see only the pre-blank characters.)
>
> John Ehrman
>

I couldn't convince a person dying of thirst in the desert to take a
drink of water. Try to convince IBM of something like this? No. I will
simply "go with the flow" and use UPPER case via symlinks to the lower
case name.

--
John McKown
Maranatha! <><

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