Cool idea. Other characters may also be possible. I got into this when I had my company with its PC-mainframe file transfer, and was dealing with how to handle making members out of PC file names. As I recall, at least at that time, it was possible to STOW a member with lower case letters in the name (but NOT leading digits, oddly enough -- you could stow a member named a but not one named 123). A module with a name of a (as opposed to A) might be possible to STOW with an assembler program, would not be executable from JCL, but *might* be LOADable.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AW: Getting control Crazy thought - what about borrowing the X'C0' "loophole" for the member name? For those who haven't delved into this stuff, for type 3/4 single module SVCs the convention is to have the last character X'C0' - X'C9', corresponding to the zoned decimal representation of the SVC number (e.g., IGC0005A for SVC 51). X'C0', which IIRC is the left brace in CPs 37 and 1047, is rather difficult to guess at, since it doesn't fall within the well-known A-Z 0-0 $ # @ characters. I haven't tried this for non-SVC modules, but what about renaming the program to {A (that's left-brace and C'A')? Only a select few would figure that out, and those are the folks you want on your sysprog staff. *g*. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
