On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:34 AM, Mark Waterbury wrote:
If ISPF/PDF does not allow certain characters in member names, there is a good reason for that.? I doubt that JCL would allow it either.
You would be wrong. One would be amazed as what you can put in various JCL fields (for example, file names) if you quote them. If one chooses to RTFM, it's even documented.??
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?A reading from the Book of OS/VS2 MVS JCL (GC28-0692-5):
If a data set name includes special characters as part of the name (the characters do not have special significance to the system), you must enclose the name in apostrophes (5-8 punch). If one of the special characters is an apostrophe, identify it by coding two consecutive apostrophes, for example, DSNAME='DAYS"END'.
When I was talking to someone about how Clarkson College (our mutual alma mater) had renamed their IEH* & IEB* utilities and then front-ended them with a security wrapper under the original names, they noted that some shops renamed the modules to lower case.?
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p.s. Amazing what forcing IEHLIST?to core dump (odd how that SYSPRINT DD had zero tracks allocated to it!) can show a person.? The system programmer knew I had a list of the real utility module names, and it drove him nuts.? Ah, the glorious results of a misspent youth
