> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För > Clark Morris > Skickat: den 5 november 2010 20:51 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters > > On 5 Nov 2010 07:18:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:42:45 -0400, John Eells wrote: > > > >>Robert Birdsall wrote: > >>> 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). > >>> > >True, very true. It's a cultural/environmental fact that IBM should > >be sensitive to; it falls in the category of "Plays Well with Others". > >IBM should even consider leapfrogging the competition and allowing > >more than 8, such as 25 or 50, or even flexible upper limit. > > But then you come up against the 8 character limitation on jobnames > that is pervasive in SMF, the various JES control blocks and a whole > lot of other control block. The TSO User id becomes the job name in > some cases (such as in the TSO logon if I recall correctly). Step > names and proc names also have the inhibition. >
One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of "alias" for the longer id's. E g id's constructed as consecutive numbers: #123456. And automatically substitute with the when needed (jobnames etc.). Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
