ITYM that they use to support it. I was using hyphen (-) as a wild card characters in various RYO utilities and was not a happy camper when IBM disallowed it.
I might have considered it reasonable if IBM had allowed a PDS as a FDS in a GDG, but since they didn't there was no possibility of confusion. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ... PDS & PDSE per se have always supported any 8 bytes as member names with the exception of x'FFFFFFFF'. The name restrictions imposed by JCL, etc. are their own thing, for their own reasons. Anyone capable of writing BPAM code could use or abuse this however it suits them. As previously mentioned, old SMP did with wild abandon. sas On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 9:45 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: > .... How is it possible to have a lower-case character in a PDS member > name? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
