WELL KIND OF. PUNCHED CARDS SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE DONE IN UPPER CASE. THEN CAME THE ONLINE GRAPHICS DEVICES. so while we were typing away in lower case, TSO WAS FOLDING TO UPPER CASE. and if you were working with an online system and didn't know this, you wouldn't fold and your screens would look funny to everyone else who was using a correctly established formatting routine.
meanwhile the printer trains that we had WERE ALL UPPER CASE UNTIL THE "SN" (was it?) with "graphic text" came along. And that's how I remember it from S/360-30 & 20 days to the 3800 printing sub system. Later, Steve Thompson -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 11:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE? ISNT IT TRUE THAT IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS ONLY UPPER CASE ? > AS LONG AS I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT JCL... WHY DOES JCL ASSUME THAT ALL > LOWER CASE CHARACTERS ARE JCL ERRORS UNLESS THEY ARE QUOTED? FOR > INSTANCE // SET PRM=ABCEDFG GETS A JCL ERROR. HEY, IBM, THERE ARE > VALID > USES FOR LOWERCASE VALUES IN PARMS. PARTICULARLY WHEN USING SET= AND > PARM= COULD YOU FIX THIS NEXT RELEASE? <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
