Here is an example of a command with a space.

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Rob

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 3:28 PM Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 13:03, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Time for an RCF; embedded blanks are bog common in, e.g., SEND.
>
> Though those on SEND must be within a quoted string. Blanks otherwise
> are highly significant. Many's the poor person who's conflated the TSO
> SEND command with console SEND, and entered on the console/SDSF
> something like
>
> send 'Lunch at the usual place today?' user(fred)
>
> and found it's gone out to all logged on TSO users.
>
> But the DUMP command accepts an unquoted but parenthesized string
> containing blanks:
>
>  DUMP COMM=(A TEST DUMP)
> *05 IEE094D SPECIFY OPERAND(S) FOR DUMP COMMAND
>
> but
>
> DUMP COMM=(NO CLOSING PAREN ON THIS ONE
> IEE307I DUMP     DELIMITER ERROR
> IEE711I SYSTEM DUMP NOT TAKEN. DUMP SPECIFICATION NOT VALID
>
> These were both issued from SDSF, btw. It didn't complain about either of
> them.
>
> Tony H.
>
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