On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 08:33:50 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>I agree totally but FWIW I find that the line commands UC and UCC/UCC go a 
>long way toward making the process tolerable.
>
Context?  ISPF Primary panel?  TSO READY prompt?  JCL?  OMVS?  Other (specify)?

(No habla UCC.)
I remember terminals with not CAPS LOCK but SHIFT LOCK, sometimes
a mechanical latch on the SHIFT key.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: John McKown
>Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:02 AM
>
>I like to use UNIX facilities. Especially some scripting languages, such as
>awk. I use Co:Z instead of BPXBATCH. Anyway, sine UNIX is case sensitive,
>my "embedded" scripts must be in lower case. I don't want to keep my
>scripts in another file. So my JCL member has embedded lower case. Which
>makes editing the actual JCL a mess if I forget to use CAPS LOCK while
>editing the JCL portion.
>
>So, I kind of wish that the JCL converter or interpreter would accept JCL
>in lower case. In particular, upper casing the JCL statements which are not
>inclosed in ticks. It would just make my life easier. I.E JCL should ignore
>case when not in ticks.

-- gil

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