No, the ideal JCL editor would uppercase only whas needs to be uppercase, and would include facilities for controlling the case of quoted text in, e.g., PARM, PATH.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Schwab <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2024 8:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF Edit - how to switch off CAPS ON External Message: Use Caution So, an ideal JCL editor would uppercase lines that start with // (but not //*) through the third set of blanks and not enclosed in quotes. On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > > W dniu 07.12.2024 o 17:20, billogden pisze: > [...] > > Should JCL accept lower case? IMHO, that is a more complex issue than one > > might first expect -- especially in "production" situations. > > This is another topic. > I don't expect JCL to accept lower or mixed case. I use uppercase in JCL > with no pain. > However JCL keyword values (PATHNAME) are definitely case sensitive. The > same may apply o DD * content. > Unfortunately when you take some job as a template you may get CAPS ON > just because the template does not contain any lowercase. However when > you want to type only uppercase code (ie. JCL) then any lowercase in a > comment may switch off the CAPS ON and this "feature" won't help you. > Monte Carlo. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
