C and Cobol with longnames and DLL support and ability to call java Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Apr 30, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:27:40 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht 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... ;-) >> > Binder. HLASM. > > But I have considerable disagreement with Binder's making it an option. > The only behavior should have been MIXED. This would have been > an entirely compatible extension of Linkage Editor behavior. > > And I'm perplexed by HLASM's backward interpretation of MACROCASECOMP > >>> 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. > >>> 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 don't see such. > >> 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? >> > My preference would be to see keywords case-insensitive and all names > case-sensitive, looking ahead to a day when DISABLE(DSNCHECK) might > become common practice. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
