On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:02:31 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
>Yeah, that's bad too. It's always seemed to me that a well-designed system 
>would take input, uppercase the parts that don't need
>case sensitivity (the non-USS bits, in z/OS, due to the historical UNIX 
>mistake-oops, there I go again!), and proceed. Throwing an
>error because you received "dsn=" instead of "DSN=" is poor human factors.
>
I wanted more to focus on file names than on commands and keywords.  I.e. with
STOW I can create members "foobar  ", "FooBar  ", and "FOOBAR  ", all in the 
same
PDS directory, but I can can access only one of them with TSO ALLOCATE or JCL DD
or ... .  One of those behaviors has to be wrong.

-- gil

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