On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:20:10 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Am I correct in my reading between the lines that if one is to process a >z/OS directory as though it were a PDS(E) using BPAM DCB, FIND, etc. then >the simulated member name - the file name - must be no more than eight >characters? > >Must be upper case? >What about names containing a period? No good? Must be no more than eight >characters total? Or . ? > It might be possible that BLDL or FIND issued from an assembler program might be more lenient. BPXWDYN probably won't allow it to be allocated; I wouldn't care to guess whether the restriction is enforced in BPXWDYN, ALLOCATE, or both.
I used to have an API to BLDL and STOW that performed no enforcement on the member name; any 64 bits worked. I don't believe it should be the business of an API to enforce syntactic restrictions not in the underlying system service. >Is there any more information on this specific topic other than "Reading >UNIX Files Using BPAM" in "DFSMS Using Data Sets"? > >Yes, I could run experiments, but thought it made more sense to tap the >collected wisdom of this august crowd. > If you're reduced to this, I hope you share the result. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
