On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:36:48 +0100, R.S. wrote: > >SUBMIT adds a character only if the job text does not contain JOB >statement. IMHO submitting jobs without JOB statement is "quick and >DIRTY" method. Very dirty. It can be easily changed to allow 8-char >userids (add 1 charecter OR change eight character with random one). > Of course, requiring that job names begin with the user ID is the only way to almost guarantee that job names are unique. But even nowadays is there anything to prevent my submitting a job not with the TSO SUBMIT command (e.g. via FTP or by writing directly to INTRDR) that has your user ID as a prefix? Is there anything except the good conscience of the admin to prevent creating two user IDs where the second is the first with a single character appended?
>Last, but not least: does anyone remember that userid can begin with >numeric? A user name 1234567 is legal one. Obviously TSO segment for >such userid is still big problem. > Simply because of DSN prefixing, or are there other concerns? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
