And IMS. MFS Formats have non-display and lower-case letters in the member names.
Such as: ."wACOV0 07ACCDEF 2F613650 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 8:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Two related member generation questions I may not have edited these posts correctly for this, but, I thought I should point out that an IBM product does create "illegal" (per JCL) member names. And that would be Netview. In years gone by I had seen member names that were really "odd" and found out that it was Netview that was creating them. So yes, an assembler programmer could do this and have done this, because it has been done. Steve Thompson On 5/30/2023 12:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > Can't an Assembler programmer using STOW create PDS members with names > beginning with '+', '-', '0', 'π', ... just about anything? I don't believe > it's proper > for higher layers such as JCL to introduce syntactic restrictions harsher than > those of core layers. The only member name prohibited is 8X'FF', indicaring > the end of a PDS directory. > > How do LM services accessible, e.g. through REXX support member "generations"? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
