> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: multiple jobs / same name <Snipped> > Still I find the use of having your user ID on it extremely limiting. > Especially if your user ID is 7 characters! (At SHARE I noticed that > Peter Van Dyke's user ID is VANDYKE. So he'd be really limited. And is > an 8 character user ID not allowed?) There are better ways to find your > output, so why limit yourself? If I submitted a large set of jobs and > then wanted to look at the output and all I saw was FJS1, FJS2, FJS3, etc; > yikes! No good. Meaningful names are good.
That's all well and good for system programmers who control their own destiny. We application types have to live within the rules set for us, and 7-character TSO userid's plus a requirement to use that userid as the first part of your batch job names has been the rule in every large application shop at which I ever worked. Whether that is technically necessary is never the issue -- it's always a management/political issue. Peter This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
