Ed You are not alone :-)
I wonder how many people said "really?" and then tried to allocate "userid.FOO-BAR" in ISPF 3.2 Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: 19 December 2008 15:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dash in Cataloged Data Set Name (Was: ISPF and long lines) 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. > > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Technology Design > I feel much better now. Thanks, Peter! :-) -- 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
