Yeah, I see the case for 8-character consistency since TSO seems to be
the weirdo here, but I'm hard-pressed (much as I'd like to see it) to
find a case for changing the other areas. It ain't broke...

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> While I agree that the control block (and SMF record) limitations on
> Jobname, proc step name and step name will be expensive to overcome,
> we need to come up with a case for it being worth doing.  The name
> limitations don't seem to be present in the Unix/Linux and Windows
> environments and both may use Unicode for at least some of the names.
> File names also may need to be reviewed.  The fun will be the
> transition.
-- 
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