The last modern vestige of screwball characters in names that I know of is in the set of SVCs like IGC0004{ and IGC0004A in LPALIB. The last character in the name corresponds to the SVC number. No problem for 1 - 9, but '0' is represented by x'C0', which is the left brace in EBCDIC. Certainly not the rich menagerie that SMP used to harbor, but it does look odd in a member name.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:18:02 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >My recollection is that STOW at least and probably BLDL and FIND are >utterly character agnostic. You can create member names with >non-printable characters in them Yes. SMP (not SMP/E) used at least one PDS that was full of them. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN