On 6 May 2010 15:10, Kirk Talman <rkueb...@tsys.com> wrote:
> going back decades it was possible to mangle the member name and do a STOW
> to save an "old" member under the mangled name using the old TTR.  You
> just can't use those names in JCL.

JCL doesn't restrict the characters allowed in a DSNAME, as long as
the DSNAME is quoted. But if it's quoted, it can't be catalogued.
However whether the part of the DSNAME that is the member name
survives as far as the next part...

> It would take an experiment to see if LOAD and LINK would allow them.

I'd bet they would, if I were the betting sort.

Tony H.

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