On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 21:08:58 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>On my local systems the jobnames default to userid + one character. > >This is typical behaviour. > A dreadful convention, with minimal mnemonic content. Quickly! Try to remember which of your jobs in the spool today is TED7 and which is TEDW. Were they the same when you ran similar jobs yesterday?
I try to use as much of the 8 characters allowed for mnemonic significance. And I avoid starting job names with my user ID; after all, I know who I am without glancing at an SDSF display. Yah, I know; some installations enforce standards mired in the 20th century, for no good reason. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
