"Thompson, Steve , SCI TW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Mark Thomen > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE? > > <SNIP> > > There are some issues with lower case - data set names cannot contain > lower > case characters; a parm that inserts data for a data set name will be > rejected with a JCL error. > <snip> > > Hmmmm. > > [DOS/VS] > // DLBL SYS004,'My Payroll file'..... > > > [Going to MVS] > //VSEDSN DD DSN='My Payroll file',DISP=OLD, > // VOL=SER=SHRD01,UNIT=2314,.... > > > I seem to recall such a critter during a DOS to MVS migration.
Sorry - CATALOGUED data sets do not support lower case. Yes, you can create funky data set names on your VTOCs, but there may be other issues you'll have to deal with - vendor products, IBM components, etc. Thanks, Mark Thomen Catalog/IDCAMS/VSAM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
