Members with nonstandard names

Some tools and products create MVS files with nonstandard names. Nonstandard names do not adhere to MVS file name conventions. IBM® Developer for z/OS® provides settings for displaying these members in the Remote Systems view.

When you enable the Show members with non-standard name option on the MVS Files preference page, the Remote Systems view displays members with lowercase names or names that contain nonstandard character sets. The CA Endevor Software Change Manager, for example, supports file names that begin with numbers. The Show members with non-standard name preference provides for showing these file names in the Remote Systems view. You can then use the menu items in the Remote Systems view to edit, browse, rename, and delete them. You can also include nonstandard member names in the With name field of the Remote z/OS Search window.
Restriction: For nonstandard names that contain lowercase characters, only the Delete and Rename menu items are available in the Remote Systems view. In this case, local cache cannot be displayed in the Remote Systems view. The Windows file system is not case-sensitive, and lowercase cache file names might conflict with similar uppercase file names.