Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 May 2020 19:04:09 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >No, it is not correct; it does not check the lengths of quoted components, but >it does check the total length. > IBM agrees, promptly: IBM>Hello. IBM>I am the writer for the z/OS JCL Reference documentation and have received your

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:29:23 +0800

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 03:13:08 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >PATH ¬= DSN > But he did include the substring

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) Not an excuse but I bet they mean they don't validate the length of the node names. DSN='MYLONGNODE.WHATEVER' is valid. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:29:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >>> //... >> This moved me to look up DSN syntax in the JCL Ref. >> It's chaos; I detect no plan in t

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Charles Mills
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:29:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >>> //... >> This moved me to look up DSN syntax in the JCL Ref. >> It's chaos; I detect no plan in the design; it was put >> t

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Charles Mills
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 03:13:08 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >PATH ¬= DSN > But he did include the substring ".dsn" in the pathname. > >From: Sri h Kolusu >Se

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread David Crayford
I hate JCL! On 2020-05-28 12:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:29:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote: //... This moved me to look up DSN syntax in the JCL Ref. It's chaos; I detect no plan in the design; it was put together One Piece At A Time:

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:29:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >>> //... >> This moved me to look up DSN syntax in the JCL Ref. >> It's chaos; I detect no plan in the design; it was put >> together One Piece At A Time: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060A15ELz00 >Agreed! I had to write a

Re: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-05-27 11:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: From: Sri h Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:49 PM ... Empirically, I found I couldn't create a DSN starting with a period even within apostrophes. I don't know where this is documented. This works fine for me ... //SORTOUT DD

DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT)

2020-05-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 May 2020 03:13:08 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >PATH ¬= DSN > But he did include the substring ".dsn" in the pathname. > >From: Sri h Kolusu >Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:49 PM >... >> Empirically, I found I couldn't create a DSN starting with a