On 2016-11-11, at 15:05, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I think I really meant to day AND 8X'BF' rather than XOR 8X'40'; in other > words just turn OFF the X'40' bit to convert upper to lower case. > > But of course that is also not a good idea when digits or national characters > are involved. > Is there an Assembler interface which, like ISPF LM Services, allows the programmer to defer specifying the member name until close? That would obviate all the scrambling to concoct provisional names.
I suppose there is, and that it's called BPAM, and I've used BPAM so I know why no one wants to use BPAM unless the circumstance is desparate. All these years, and I understand that numerous sites have privately invented QPAM but that sagacity hasn't percolated back to IBM. -- gil
