On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:11:17 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > ... > if someone were able to do an RFE with a compelling business case to allow > embedded spaces within all quoted text. > Why should that be hard? It's simply a matter of *not* treating <SP> as an exception.
> ... It would also be nice if they could justify allowing quotes as an > alternative framing character to apostrophes. > Or, as XEDIT and "sed" do, allowing the command itself to imply the framing character from a very large set such as all special characters. >I like the suggestion of having SDSF support (name) in the REXX API. > The hard part would be selecting a lead-in that doesn't otherwise exist in SDSF commands. It restricts the choice of scripting language to one that supports IRXEXCOM. It may be reasonably easy. In CMS I once wrote glue code to interface SQL/DS to Mainsail's scriptable debugger. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
