On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 23:10:12 -0500, Gord Tomlin wrote: >On 2019-12-04 22:13, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> ISTR that many releases ago the document cited explicitly forbade >> DBCS characters so those would not have been considered "valid >> hexadecimal". I no longer see the restriction; I doubt that it was >> ever enforced. > >What document is "the document"? I didn't see the OP or anyone else >refer to a specific document. > It was at the beginning of the text you trimmed:
Re: I'm similarly perplexed by IBM's frequent usage, as in: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaa200/ENQ_Description.htm ... The name can contain any valid hexadecimal character. ... ... and in several earlier plies. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN