Everything was UPPERCASE, as you mentioned. That's why the quotes are necessary around anything that is not upper case in JCL streams. It was a nontrivial change to get RACF to use mixed case passwords. (And, don't try that until all of your images are at the supported release levels.)
Regards, Rob Weiss z/SWITA and z/Series I/T Security and Privacy Consultant IBM Software Group Sales IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/04/2006 10:15:56 AM: > 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
