PDSE's support member generations but you don't see IBM's ISPF, utilities, JCL, etc. supporting them. Thinking that when one part of IBM does something that another part will take advantage may have worked 30 years ago but this isn't the IBM that we grew up with.
And the PDS command is open source so feel free to contact John Kalinich and I'm sure he would love the help of anyone who wanted to provide the case insensitivity capabilities to it. -------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck <sdg> Senior Software Engineer 21st Century Software 940 West Valley Road Suite 1604 Wayne, PA 19087 www.21stcenturysoftware.com [email protected] (800) 555-6845 x610 (610) 710-4832 – Office From the Leaders in Data Stewardship™ THIS E-MAIL MAY CONTAIN PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, COPYRIGHTED, OR OTHER LEGALLY PROTECTED INFORMATION. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT (EVEN IF THE E-MAIL ADDRESS ABOVE IS YOURS), YOU MAY NOT USE, COPY, OR RE-TRANSMIT IT. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS BY MISTAKE PLEASE NOTIFY US BY RETURN E-MAIL, THEN DELETE. THANK YOU -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ... That's the point. z/OS PDS(E) *does* already support mixed-case member names. Silly for a utility to defeat their usage. If IBM found the capability useful for SMP, certainly others might find the capability useful as well. Silly for JCL to defeat their usage too, but that's a different thread. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ... 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
