STOW will accept anything. Re it's not my job, see <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLR-V2S0DC8>.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 3:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "National" characters On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:35:14 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >That's a definite maybe. You can certainly have a null in a quoted DSN, but >you can't catalog it, which makes it pretty useless. > I bet STOW allows them. Probably BLDL, LINK, ... When I first discovered apostrophes I created various uncatalogable DSNs. Shortly, storage admins descended on me, accusing me of breaking their Scratch utility. Bad Scratch utility design. > ... I can see nulls in path names creating all sorts of havoc in a Eunix > environment, but it's not my dog. > In PATH='...' they result in errors in allocation, perhaps earlier. ITYM "I don't have a dog in this fight." -- 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
