"Robert Birdsall" <bsqu...@umich.edu> wrote in message news:<listserv%201011050707120034.0...@bama.ua.edu>... > This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. > The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the > past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe > can't use the institutional IDs in part because of this limitation). > > What is the underlying technical reason for the restriction? > Thanks for any insight. >
Because jobnames submitted by users are constructed from the userid plus 1 character. Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html