On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:51:33 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: >We too stumbled over the data set name allowing hyphen when we tried to >create a (new-ish, only 15 years ago) internal data set name validation >routine. I don't recall how/when we re-discovered the validity of hyphen, >but it certainly wasn't known to the masses. > Yet vendors complain about customers' relying on lore rather than documentation.
Design question: Why isn't there a single service to validate data set names to provide consistency rather than chaos? If such existed even Ed J. might be persuaded to employ it. And it ould be sensitive to an installation's choice of Classic or newfangled catalog syntax rules. -- 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
