On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 09:44:18 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >I'm not very active in the IBM-MAIN group; normally I have a rule in Outlook >that moves its emails to a folder, where I may look at it or may not. But >this one got to my In box somehow, and caught my attention. How is it >possible to have a lower-case character in a PDS member name? > >And even if some combination of moves make it possible, how is it possible to >do it "carelessly"? > Assembler; typo in a member name in a STOW call.
This shows the folly of designing a user interface to make a case-sensitive file system appear to be case insensitive. ISPF prefix commands in a member list manipulate the actual member with no name munging. >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Monday, December 2, 2019 20:40 > >..., suppose I have carelessly >created a member name containing a lower case character, can I >use the pds command to rename it to something more conventional? On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 11:15:38 +0000, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM wrote: >In JCL you can put any hexadecimal character in a dsname >if you enter it between quotes. .. > I'm always perplexed by the apparently restrictive adjective, "hexadecial". Of the 256 EBCDIC code points, which are non-hexadecimal? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
