While mixed case dataset names, mixed case member names, etc. would be nice, that would require a major update to z/OS that I don't see IBM doing. At least with OMVS you can have mixed case directories and file names - and OEdit/OBrowse work with them - even ISPF Browse/Edit/View will. Then there is OSHELL and the better UDList (3.17). Not much else in native ISPF supports the OMVS.
It is what it is and we work within those constraints. We can hope that someday IBM will enhance the system for many additional capabilities and if they do I suspect many of us will be long gone from IT, if not long gone from this planet. Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ... > This shows the folly of designing a user interface to make a case-sensitive > file system appear to be case insensitive. Agreed! Make it an option in the utility if you wish. Heck, make folding the default if you wish, but give @Gil and others the option of exploiting the full power of PDS. PDS is the name of the utility after all! The 029 is dead! The 3278 Model 1 (or whatever it was) is dead! Get over upper case. You don't see e-mails in IBM-MAIN in all upper case, do you? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ... On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 09:44:18 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >I'm not very active in the IBM-MAIN group; normally I have a rule in Outlook >that moves its emails to a folder, where I may look at it or may not. But >this one got to my In box somehow, and caught my attention. How is it >possible to have a lower-case character in a PDS member name? > >And even if some combination of moves make it possible, how is it possible to >do it "carelessly"? > Assembler; typo in a member name in a STOW call. This shows the folly of designing a user interface to make a case-sensitive file system appear to be case insensitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
