PDSEs allow mixed case alias names up to 1023 bytes long. They can only be seen through DESERV, so a utility not named ISPF can look at them (I think PDS 8.6 supports them).
If you look at some of the CICS PDSE program object libraries, you can see them in the member list (again, not under ISPF, sounds like a good IBM Idea™). Cheers, Ray Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2023, at 09:03, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, at 15:54, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 04:27:04 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>> >>> ... The assembler seems OK with it, but the linker is converted to upper >>> case, even though I've specified CASE(MIXED). >>> >> I'm surprised. In an experiment long ago I was able to create a member >> in an (old-fashioned) PDS simply with CASE(MIXED); NAME lower. > > I'm sure I recall that some of the SMP/E work PDSes had member names that > not only were mixed case but also included characters that you'd not see in > PDSs processed via standard ispf utilities. I can't quite remember if they > used > every single byte value in each of the 8 character positions, but I think > they > might have done, thus allowing 256 ** 8 different member names. > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
