I'll take that bet. However, labels, opcodes and unquoted parameters are in a very restricted character set
* // and /* in column 1 * Upper case alphabetic * Digits * National characters * Punctuation where called for by the syntax, e.g., ().,=' -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: 2 possible RFE --- ISPF & SDSF. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 1:57 PM Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > "... a sequence of 80-byte characters. ". Is that UTF-640 for true > Universe-al support? > > If I were a betting man, I'd give 1000:1 odds that JCL must be written in CP-037 only, any non-CP027 characters would need to be in ' marks, like a PARM= string, or it is JCL ERROR time. > sas > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
