John McKown wrote: >z/OS seems to be transitioning more towards using lower case in addition to >upper case.
Where? ;-) Please give Examples - short and sweet please... ;-) >One area in which it affects me is when the ISPF editor automagically switches >to upper/lower case support and I forget to type in UPPER CASE when I do >things like a CHANGE command. Yes, this is my fault due to a long standing >habit. Yeah, let that be a lesson to you... ;-D It is a common PITA. ;-D Today I submitted a job resulting in a *** JCL error caused by a stupid lower case character. PITA because I modified+submitted a job in SDSF using SJ and did some mindboggling typing without saving that job. I never learn that lesson too... Arrrrrrrrgggghhhh! ;-) >But I am wonder why the JCL converter/interpreter could be changed ... Do you actually mean 'could NOT be changed'? >... to accept keywords such as DD and DSN= in lower case as if they were upper >case. I think there is a backward compatibility issue, but you have got a good point. >I guess I am wonder if the process could be as simply as doing an upper case >translation on everything which is not enclosed in ' marks. It should be easy. Check for 'a-z' outside quotes in JCL and do a simple translation to 'A-Z'. A few lines at most in JES2 interpreter. But still why not? You should elicite comments from a List Server member here who always said 'I Hate JCL!' ;-) Captain Hook said in that Peter Pan movie: 'I Hate, I Hate, I Hate JCL!' (Wait, do a change 'JCL'/'Peter Pan') ;-D ;-D ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
