On Wed, 27 May 2020 03:13:08 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>PATH ¬= DSN
>
But he did include the substring ".dsn" in the pathname.
>________________________________________
>From: Sri h Kolusu
>Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:49 PM
>...
>> Empirically, I found I couldn't create a DSN starting with a period even
>> within apostrophes. I don't know where this is documented.
>
>This works fine for me
>...
>//SORTOUT DD PATH='/tmp/.create.dsn.with.period',
>// ...
This moved me to look up DSN syntax in the JCL Ref.
It's chaos; I detect no plan in the design; it was put
together One Piece At A Time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060A15ELz00
One sentence in particular moved me to an RCF:
Hello, MHVRCFs,
In: z/OS Version 2 Release 4
MVS JCL Reference
IBM SA23-1385-40
Under DD:DSNAME Syntax I see:
• The system does not check data set names enclosed in
apostrophes for valid characters or valid length.
That seems to imply that "the system" permits data set names
longer than 44 characters.
Is that correct, or is a clarification required?
Thanks,
gil
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