On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 14:33:14 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>   ...
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ikjc500/ikj2l2_SUBMIT_command_operands.htm
>Note [brightly highlighed]
>    All characters in the job stream are converted to uppercase
>    before being processed.
>
>WTF!?  Does that mean that if I SUBMIT a job containing:
>    //SYSUT1  DD  *
>    This is Mixed Case text.
>The effect is the same as:
>    //SYSUT1  DD  *
>    THIS IS MIXED CASE TEXT.
>
I've received an off-list clarification (thanks) that that applies only to
"SUBMIT *",  as opposed to "SUBMIT dsn".  The behavior is yet increasingly
oppressively archaic in that "SUBMIT *" precludes reference to, for example
UNIX files with mixed case names.  Where's ASIS when you need it?

>I'd advocate RFEs for a
>o    SUBMIT FROMDDNAME(...) option
>o    Removing the Fixed-80 restriction, relaxed for JES2 circa z/OS 1.5
>     and for JESZ3 far earlier, but lingering in TSO/ISPF submit.
o     ASIS in many more places; even global to the TSO session.

-- gil

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