My favorite user ID mess was on an old Vax system that used the last name followed by first initial. Of course this system began each printed report with a banner page listing the user's ID printed in large, block letters. One day I went to the printer and noticed a report from user SEXTONG. While I was puzzling over this an embarrassed Greg Sexton came up and snatched his report off of the printer.
Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 4:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: Userid schemes On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:22:12 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all >truncated as needed, of course. These are IDs I've had, won't tell ya where >each was (and omitting just firstname, just lastname, or intials): > It was egregious underreaching when IBM increased the permitted length of TSO IDs from 7 to 8. They should have gone to something more characteristic of extant systems, probably several dozen, using USERIDALIASTABLE if needed to perform the mapping. <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=srsci-if-you-have-problems-names-such-as-uucp-uucpg-tty> >Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no agenda. > I once worked for an organization that used last name, first initial, middle initial. After searching phone directories, I wondered whether Cheng K. Fu of San Diego, CA would ever apply for employment there. (They were inflexible. A co-worker was required to change her user ID because of marriage.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
