Hi, The reason goes back a few decades, way before my time. In the beginning, when we needed to print Hebrew, the Hebrew characters replaced English Upper case. This was before there were even terminals. In the next stage, Hebrew Characters replaced the English lower case letters, so we could print and display (there were terminals by this stage) both English Upper case and Hebrew on the same display or report. At this stage someone wrote a huge ISPF application. This is one of the main reasons that we still use this encoding. The current and up to date encoding (EBCDIC 424) can display and print English upper case, English lower case and Hebrew.
In the past, I tried to attempt to convert the ISPF application to EBCDIC-424. The problem I encountered was with the &. The English alphabet has 26 characters, The Hebrew alphabet has 27. Way back some decided that The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph, would be replaced by the & character (x'50') The & is also used as the variable identifier in the CLIST and PANEL languages, so it's very hard to know if an & represents the character aleph or an &. Gadi -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 7:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Upper case for ISPF and SDSF Just wondering... Is the reason for this because upper case may be easier to read for folks who's first language is something other than English? On 4/28/2019 10:43 PM, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > I found a solution. > There is an optional FMID you can download and install called JIF7R16 that > adds libraries with upper case only versions of the panels, messages and some > other libraries. > > Gadi > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Upper case for ISPF and SDSF > > I don't understand the question. ISPF doesn't have case defaults at the > library level. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on > behalf of Gadi Ben-Avi <gad...@malam.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:45 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Upper case for ISPF and SDSF > > Hi, > We are currently working on upgrading to z/OS v2.3 ISPF is currently mixed > case. > Is there a way to add upper case only libraries that are controlled by SMP/E > to ISPF. > > Thanks > > Gadi > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
