In <[email protected]>, on 05/27/2012
at 10:36 AM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO
>product called PCF. If memory serves me one of the feature that
>PCF offered was to be able to stack commands and to separate them
>it used the field mark key as a delimiter.
No; you could use FM as a separator without PCF. As I recall, PCF
allowed you to use other characters, e.g., semicolon, as a separator,
but did not disable the recognition of the FM.
>Although admittedly the biggest feature of PCF was to do data
>set dasd pooling
Not command accounting?
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