-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William H. Blair Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) <SNIP> > Quotes are supposed to mean as-is.
I understand your modern thinking, but they are really only supposed to mean what the code that supports them say they mean. And in 1970, the decision was made that for the most part "quotes" meant "do not apply the TSO PROFILE PREFIX() value." Thus, they really have little or nothing to do with automatic folding to upper case. The command processors you are dealing with are simply requesting this conventional behavior by declaring the parameter's value to be a data set name, most likely. <SNIP> So this means that "'//* this is a comment string for JCL'" is to be discarded (or cause a syntax error) because the "/*" started a comment (from CLIST's viewpoint). That is just WRONG for CLIST to force this and has caused MANY headaches. And I also agree that 'djflajfasljkdf' should be ASIS, so that IF I have to allocate a DOS DSN on a shared volume, I CAN from within a TSO session. But I am instead forced to use JCL and do it there as DSN='PAYROLL run for Tuesday',VOL=SER=VSE001,UNIT=3390.... Just my two cents worth from dealing with this for years (from the late '70s) with or without a DOS system to deal with. Regards, Steve Thompson -- All opinions expressed by me are my own and may not necessarily reflect those of my employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
