On 9/23/2013 11:07 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Historically, the use of a DSN{AME]= value like*.*.GUBBINS was not possible for an ordinary application programmer, whose JCL would have been rejected as in error if it had contained such a DSN= value.
Sorry to disagree, but application programmers had wide leeway in creating "funny" names. For DOS compatibility, a DSN was allowed to be quoted, and could contain a number of special characters that would fail in JCL unquoted. With a little more work, any character combination could be used in a DSN when allocating with SVC 32.
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