Does IBM document which ISPF panels translate to UC? > But I'd gp to a different extreme: keywords should be case-insensitive; > this can be done in the table search routine.
That would be a real problem for, e.g., Unix commands, where the same letter can mean different things depending on the case. > I have always commented my JCL in mixed case. That practice > infuriates some colleagues who drop into ISPF Edit and find CAPS OFF. You need a better grade of colleagues. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JCL & UNIX coding. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 07:02:26 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >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. > Ditto TSO commands typed on the ISPF primary panel. It's absurd that tso allocate path('/dev/null') results in: PATH /DEV/NULL NOT IN CATALOG OR CATALOG CAN NOT BE ACCESSED. (BTW, was there really a catalog search attempted?) But I'd gp to a different extreme: keywords should be case-insensitive; this can be done in the table search routine. *Everything* else should be taken as typed. And symbol substitution should be performed everywhere, not merely in the handful of cases enumerated in the JCL Ref. I have always commented my JCL in mixed case. That practice infuriates some colleagues who drop into ISPF Edit and find CAPS OFF. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
