I may not have edited these posts correctly for this, but, I
thought I should point out that an IBM product does create
"illegal" (per JCL) member names. And that would be Netview.
In years gone by I had seen member names that were really "odd"
and found out that it was Netview that was creating them.
So yes, an assembler programmer could do this and have done this,
because it has been done.
Steve Thompson
On 5/30/2023 12:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Can't an Assembler programmer using STOW create PDS members with names
beginning with '+', '-', '0', 'π', ... just about anything? I don't believe
it's proper
for higher layers such as JCL to introduce syntactic restrictions harsher than
those of core layers. The only member name prohibited is 8X'FF', indicaring
the end of a PDS directory.
How do LM services accessible, e.g. through REXX support member "generations"?
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