Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>From 'TSO/E System Programming Command Reference':
>>ACCOUNT--ADD subcommand >>userid - specifies the user ID for a new entry in the UADS and the broadcast >> data set. >>value: 1-7 alphanumeric characters, beginning with an alphabetic or special >>character >??? Are you suggesting that the design of the ADD subcommand of the ACCOUNT utility dictated the otherwise design of TSO? No, ACCOUNT, TSO, etc, are using UADS with all its nuances, limits, etc. As others already shown in this thread, it is the old architecture which has to be preserved due to backward compatibility. These 'old' architecture was good back then. Now it is questioned here in an informal way. It would really be nice to have loooooong user names, but then you need to (re-)consider jobnames, PREFIX, dataset names, all those macros in macros libraries, etc. Then you can look at JES2, for example, to handle that too... It could be a messy and interesting tour... ;-D Interesting thread, especially after John Eells kindly joined in this... ;-D Thanks to OP to spark off this usefull thread. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
