Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:30:26 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
STEP, Step, FILE, File, FOOBAR, and FooBar are taken as-is
and refer to different entities.
No, no, no! Case sensitivity is a nightmare! Allow
mixed case, sure, but not case sensitivity. No! No!
Will you, nill you, case sensitivity is with us; a proven
fact.
If, in a call to SCV 99, I supply CL8'File' in the text unit
for the DDNAME, it gets allocated as-is. If in a DCB I supply
CL8'File', that is taken as-is and that file gets opened.
With Binder PARM=CASE(M), I can create a program object,
'FooBar' (as-is). Why should JCL prohibit "EXEC PGM=FooBar"
to run that program or "//File DD ..." to allocate a file
to be opened by that DCB?
If you'll support the changes necessary to make DYNALLOC,
OPEN, Binder, and DFSMS in general case-insensitive and
IBM agrees, I'll relent concerning JCL.
-- gil
Paul,
I have no issue with mixed case; and I support
case sensitivity _in quotes_; but I feel when you
start saying pgm=Foobar and pgm=FooBar identify
two different programs then I say "stop". Debugging
those kinds of JCL errors is not productive.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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