Except that an UNPK would leave the field 0C, not C0, so this sounds like an old programmers tale to me.
=============================================== Wayne Driscoll Omegamon DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com =============================================== Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 12/18/2008 04:31 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines) (This time I'll see if I can edit my remarks _before_ I press SEND.) On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:27:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > >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), ... > I am told this is an institutionalized mistake: a developer of yore did an UNPK and neglected to clear the sign nybble. IBM elected never to add the NI which would have fixed it. My surmise is that this cost far more code elsewhere in the OS, plus some corequisite documentation. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
