On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 11:38:42 -0600, John McDowell wrote: > >Having said that the limitation of using characters outside of uppercase >alphabetic and national (#@$) characters in JCL for PROCs and INCLIUDEs (in my >judgement) is predicated upon the parsing engine that the Converter has. >Having written a parsing engine the prospect of "tinkering" with the Converter >parser makes me very uncomfortable :-( I'm not saying it can't be done or >even that it shouldn't be done but my discomfiture puts it further down my >(personal) priority list :-) > ??? Somewhere there's a TRT or the like that identifies characters valid in symbols. Just add the lower case alphabetics to its table and be done with it.
(Actually, Conway's Law requires that there be several (perhaps hundreds) such tables. (To wit, the inconsistent treatment of hyphen in DSNAMEs.) But still ...) It was a colossal blunder to provide the CASE() option in Binder; even worse to choose the wrong default. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
