On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:27:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >The ISPF User's Guide calls "#", "$" and "@" "Special" characters; otherwise >discussing national language support.
Where, specifically? In a quick search on "special character national language" in both Vol I and Vol II, I spotted only mention of national characters in the results, though I didn't go through and read each page. Oh, hmmm, trying "nls" instead of "national language," I don't know why this page was hit (most of the other hits include NL for newline) but I see what you're talking about: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=types-member-name-conventions > Special characters are as defined in the U.S. English code page (037): > @ (X'7C'), # (X'7B'), $ (X'5B') Yeah, I agree, that should definitely be national characters. They may be extra-double-special in how they're displayed, but they're not special at all in how they're used in data set and member names. There are other contexts where special characters do reasonably include national characters, like: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=strings-using-picture > P'$' > Any special character (not alphabetic or numeric). ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
