Special = any non-alphanumeric symbol that zOS (all access methods, catalogs, etc.) is ok with.
It's not necessarily for use in JCL, so doesn't need to be one among those 12. Something PDS/PDSE would accept, like the $-prefixed member names we see today. - KB ------- Original Message ------- On Friday, July 7th, 2023 at 10:08 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 17:40, kekronbekron > 000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > I suppose... even if the char is different in different code pages, it is > > ok. > > Don't we just need some special char that's available in all known & used > > code pages? > > > That's the "syntactic character set" mentioned earlier. Of course such > a character set will by definition not contain all the characters > needed to satisfy everyone. > > > $ in US, or £ in UK code page, whether they look the same or not in hex, > > isn't the aim to find a special char that works in "all" code pages? > > > What is "special" in this context? > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
