In <000d01ca43b2$7ddc9c10$7995d4...@net>, on 10/02/2009
   at 03:48 PM, Ulrich Krueger <[email protected]> said:

>The tradition of using your TSO userid for batch job names dates back to
>the invention of TSO and has been a default (or should I say, de-facto
>standard) ever since then.

If you wanted STATUS to return a list of your jobs then you had to[1]
stick to userid plus one character. With SDSF practically omnipresent, I
doubt that STATUS gets much use any more.

[1] I don't know whether the restriction still exists in current
    z/OS releases.
 
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