In a recent note, Wayne Driscoll said: > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:32:35 -0600 > > The first form, is clearly NOT quoted, and never appears to be. In order > for it to be quoted, the quotes would have to be the data area passed to SVC > 99, ie. > DSNAME DC CL44'''MY.DATA.SET''' > > In the second, this is also unquoted because the TSO parse utility removes > the quotes from dataset name prior to passing it to the CALLDAIR interface. > > The third also, is clearly non-quoted, so in fact, all of these forms will > not hav ethe bit set. > Are you saying, then, that unlike Assembler and the TSO parse utility, both of which remove quotes, the JCL C/I passes them on to the Allocation component which sets the SIOTDSQU bit and removes the quotes? I'm pretty sure that if I create and keep an uncatalogued data set with the name quoted in the JCL DD statement, the quotes do not appear in DSLIST, nor presumably in the VTOC. Of course, I suspect the boundary between the C/I and Allocation may be less distinct than this discussion implies.
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