Really? I just looked at my z/OS SCDS (2.4). Definitely a PDS structure and
here's what it looks like:
Name
.G.3....
.GXc'...
../.....
.Z7X>...
...._{..
...._...
........
nGXc=...
Rex
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Two related member generation questions
SMP/E uses VSAM and doesn't have the wonky member names of SMP through SMP4.
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Subject: Re: Two related member generation questions
SMP used to do this, and ISTR SMP/E does as well.
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:34 AM Schmitt, Michael <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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"?
> >
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