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On Thu04-Apr-2011 16:27 , James Lampert wrote:
CRPence wrote:

Names delimited with quotation marks will maintain mixed-case. Of
course lower-case alphabetic characters are variant rather than
invariant . . .

Not in EBCDIC, they're not!

In EBCDIC, the entire upper and lower case alphabet, all 10 digits,
space, &, -, /, :, period, comma, (, ), _, single and double
typewriter quotes, +, ?, =, ;, and > are invariant, and < is
quasi-invariant.


One could wish that lowercase characters were invariant, but unfortunately to suggest they are, is not entirely accurate. Globalization documentation for thy IBM i OS specifically warns, among other things, that "Lowercase alphabets should not be assumed to be invariant." Consider that the EBCDIC code page 290 either has no lowercase a-z or those characters are variant. Perform the following scripted requests on a IBM i command line, honoring the specified case, to infer there is an issue:

CHGJOB CCSID(290)
ChgJob CCSID(37) /* Fails: "Command ChgJob ... not found" */
CHGJOB CCSID(37)

If no CCSID based on code page 290 is going to be supported, then I suppose lower case characters from the character set 00640 used in SQL identifiers should be fine.

I believe both the "required space" and "quotation mark" characters are quasi-invariant [he-heh; OK, rarely variant] for being invariant across all but one or two EBCDIC CCSIDs, however I am unsure of the accuracy of that claim about the less-than character. I do not recall ever testing SQL for the variant delimiter, the [double] quote being a possible problem. Perhaps the '<' character might be missing from one or more default keyboard layouts, but I do not recall that character is variant in any EBCDIC CCSID; though perhaps the Euro character changed something I do not recall.?

Regards, Chuck

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