In a recent note, Charles Mills said:
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:17 -0800
>
> 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.
>
It's easier than that:
//STEP EXEC PGM=IEWL,PARM=CASE=MIXED
//SYSLIN DD *
...
NAME '123abc'(R)
But, on the main objective, the mantra should always be, "Protect
the data; don't restrict access to programs." Whatever you are
trying to prevent whomever from doing, unless the data are RACF
protected, he can write his own program to do it.
-- gil
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