Well, there are also the non-English characters with umlauts and cedilla's and other extra markings as well.
But I agree, lower case would be the cleaner solution. One suitably arranged TR does it. Can't use XOR of 8X'40' on the name to convert upper case to lower because that messes up digits and "national" characters. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 11:29 AM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Question on using DYNALLOC On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: > I like this, particularly because of the explanation that goes with it > as to why you want to do things this way. > > But, might I suggest that you do the member name in lower case? That > way, you can see it, and I think ISPF will allow you to view/edit it > if you need to while fixing a problem if your JOB fails for any reason. > Yeah - lower case is a very good idea. My use of X'00' as the last byte is a bit weird because ISPF will show it as if it were a blank and the member list would appear to have two members with an identical name when the member name is not exactly 8 printable characters long. Ah, if only EBCDIC had emoji characters. Imagine the fun member names we could have. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
