On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:12:24 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>
>And all of that could easily be solved with a new "ASIS" parameter for
>the TSO "ALLOC ... DA(*)" command, although I agree with you that the
>chances of such a change being made are slim and none, and slim went out
>to lunch.
>
I'd be delighted to have a "PROFILE ASIS" option which disabled _all_
case conversion by TSO (substitute the identity translation for the
CAPS translation), and available to child programs such as ISPF.
It's absurd that from a View member menu the command:
TSO ALLOCATE PATH('/dev/null')
fails with:
IKJ56228I PATH /DEV/NULL NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED
while the same command while editing a member succeeds. ISPF should
_never_ convert the argument string of the TSO command; it can't tell
what TSO commands may be case-sensitive, and it shouldn't try to guess,
and it shouldn't be inconsistent. If some panels pass the TSO command
argument as-is, others should do likewise.
BTW, the message text above should be corrected. It might mislead
the programmer to believe a catalog lookup was performed and failed,
but I believe no catalog lookup was performed. Some developer was
lazy and recycled a message.
-- gil
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