On 4 Aug 2006 15:24:30 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 4 Aug 2006 12:40:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main >(Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Thomen) wrote: > >>There are some issues with lower case - data set names >>cannot contain lower >>case chOn 4 Aug 2006 15:24:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur T.) wrote:
>On 4 Aug 2006 12:40:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main >(Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Thomen) wrote: > >>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. >> >>It's also not clear what the JCL processor should do with >>lower-case. Do >>the programs that get invoked expect lower-case? How many >>programs (in the >>world) would have to upper-case items to properly >>interpret them? >>Parameters like AMP, STORCLAS, MGMTCLAS, and others added >>over the years >>would have to be modified to support lower-case. It's >>not just "allowing >>them in JCL" - some of these parameters are passed to IBM >>components, and >>to vendor products. Can you imagine how much work it >>would take to support >>lower-case? > > My Share requirement had been to convert all lower >case JCL to upper except within quoted strings. (Now, I >might also exempt the operand of path=.) > > So, what would it take? My guess would be a >not-too-difficult routine in C/I and/or JES READER. I forget what the JES3 equivalent would be but EXIT 6 in JES2 would be a simple place to put the code if you wanted to have that feature in your shop. The specs would be interesting. > > What's the benefit? With so much lower case required >in JCL, now, there are too many people having to resubmit >jobs because of JCL errors due to lower case elsewhere. We >can't just set SPF up for CAPS in our JCL libraries, anymore. >> characters; a parm that inserts data for a data set >>name will be >>rejected with a JCL error. > > rest snipped ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
