FORMAT4.DSCB could cause some confusion if not used solely with IMASPZAP.
Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder acceptable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.” [George Orwell] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:04:38 PM Subject: Re: DSNAME Syntax On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:06:21 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 07:46 -0400 on 09/24/2013, John Gilmore wrote about Re: DSNAME Syntax: > >>The 'period' problem is an old one. It has a syntactic function in >>DSN[AME]= values, and it is out of place as the first character in a >>standard one. > Ah, but I had asked about quote-framed DSNAMEs, where apparently the standard rules are largely suspended. I can use lower case, embedded blanks, long qualifiers, but not an initial period. Does this reflect the DOS conventions? Are there data set names not beginning with a period that likewise are rejected by JCL when quote-framed? (Well, I found one, not very surprisingly: a data set name of all blanks causes allocation of a temporary data set instead. Still others?) >It also is an "Invisible" dataset in HFS/etc. type directories. > ("dataset"? "data set"?) in HFS type directories? The usual term is filename. And irrelevant here. -- 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
