On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 13:03, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Time for an RCF; embedded blanks are bog common in, e.g., SEND.
Though those on SEND must be within a quoted string. Blanks otherwise are highly significant. Many's the poor person who's conflated the TSO SEND command with console SEND, and entered on the console/SDSF something like send 'Lunch at the usual place today?' user(fred) and found it's gone out to all logged on TSO users. But the DUMP command accepts an unquoted but parenthesized string containing blanks: DUMP COMM=(A TEST DUMP) *05 IEE094D SPECIFY OPERAND(S) FOR DUMP COMMAND but DUMP COMM=(NO CLOSING PAREN ON THIS ONE IEE307I DUMP DELIMITER ERROR IEE711I SYSTEM DUMP NOT TAKEN. DUMP SPECIFICATION NOT VALID These were both issued from SDSF, btw. It didn't complain about either of them. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
