We have a PDSE with member names starting with a left paren which were created with some old software. I am unable to create such members in ISPF edit or to copy them with IEBCOPY.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Friday, January 05, 2024 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: allowed characters in member name Radoslaw, From memory, this is simply the ALPHANUMNAT set. Alphabetic chars (upper case), Numerics and the national chars (#$@). First char may not be numeric. Lennie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: 05 January 2024 17:18 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: allowed characters in member name (This is somehow Friday question, but at least on topic. :-) ) What characters are allowed in JCL when specifying member name? I mean constructs like the following: //ANY DD DSN=HLQ.DATASET(MEMBER) Note, it is not about PDS/PDSE itself and I have seen SMPSCDS member names (as well as PDSMAN generated), but I mean JCL-acceptable names, which are also supported by ISPF (I think so). -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
