On 4 Aug 2006 09:16:05 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >ISNT IT TRUE THAT IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS ONLY UPPER CASE ?
For those machines with only 6 bit characters such as the IBM 14xx series, 705/7080, RCA 301/3301, Yes. > >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

