On 5 November 2010 21:58, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > I really wonder how hard this would be. But I don't know everywhere the > TSO id is stored. In the few places that I have found, it seems that the > ID field is defined as CL7, but there always seems to be a FL1 field > next to it to store the length. Seems to me that the length field could > be used to store the 8th character for 8 character IDs. Since a RACF id > can only have A-Z 0-9 $...@# as a valid character. And the lowest hex value > of these is the $ at x'5B', then if the "length" field is >x'07', it > must be the last character of the ID and the length of the ID must be 8. > If it is <= x'07', then the field still contains the ID length. Granted, > clumsy to implement, but seems like it will fit in the number of bytes > generally available.
Sure, but all existing software that trusts that length byte is going to fail, quite possibly with Very Bad consequences. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
