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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
