On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:59:12 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>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.
>
I could probably live with that, except for:
3 //STEP EXEC PGM='FooBar'
STMT NO. MESSAGE
3 IEFC629I INCORRECT USE OF APOSTROPHE IN THE PGM FIELD
Why?
And then there's TSO. Dammit! Why does TSO insist on converting
strings _in quotes_ to upper case. Quotes are supposed to mean
as-is. (Your intuition seems to agree with mine.) And why are
terminal data sets ("DSN(*)") converted to upper case, no matter
what I do?
-- gil
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