Paul Gilmartin wrote:
it if it exists regardless of syntax rules). If the designers intended to support mixed case names, as STOW and BLDL do, TSO, ISPF, and other utilities should not overrule their design by forcing input to upper case, particularly if the member name
You're imputing too much into the design. When OS/360 was first written, there were no keypunches with lower case, and no way to place lower case letters on an IEBUPDTE ./ ADD or LKED NAME statement (short of overpunching). The lack of case conversion was more likely a decision of convenience in implementation, rather than intent. Otherwise we'd need to conclude that they also meant percent signs and other funny characters to be legal,
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