I remember them being there when we did a DOS conversion back about 1985. Alan
----- Original Message ----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Dec 17 17:27:57 2008 Subject: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines) Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Okay. I sit corrected. > What really has stabilised is the user community. > On a related matter, we recently received a problem report from a customer who complained that our standard classic MVS data set name validation routine did not allow for dashes (-) in cataloged data set names. I never knew dashes were legal! But, an empirical test on z/OS 1.9 proves that they are (but not as the first character of a qualifier). Naturally, I can research this. But, I'm just wondering if anyone on the list knows whether this is a recent change or whether dashes have always been supported and I just stupidly overlooked it for decades. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
