Yes, but he had no apostrophes in his input.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 2:13 PM 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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DSN SYNTAX (was: ... last node in DFSORT) On Wed, 27 May 2020 03:13:08 +0000, 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 period even >> within apostrophes. I don't know where this is documented. > >This works fine for me >... >//SORTOUT DD PATH='/tmp/.create.dsn.with.period', >// ... 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 One sentence in particular moved me to an RCF: Hello, MHVRCFs, In: z/OS Version 2 Release 4 MVS JCL Reference IBM SA23-1385-40 Under DD:DSNAME Syntax I see: • The system does not check data set names enclosed in apostrophes for valid characters or valid length. That seems to imply that "the system" permits data set names longer than 44 characters. Is that correct, or is a clarification required? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
