On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:27:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>Veilleux, Jon L wrote: >> I have an old JCL manual and it states "alphanumeric or national >> ($,#,@), a hyphen, or a character X'C0' " so it looks like a dash >> (hyphen) has been legal for a long time. >> > >Thanks! You (and other responders) have saved me some research time. > >I guess I've been blind since birth on this one. The x'C0' (left brace) >is also a surprise. I've seen it used in member names (e.g., for SVC >routines in LPALIB), but didn't know it was allowed in data set names >also. :-[ > >-- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
