Dave:
I remember distinctly that UID's were limited to 7 characters.
One of the reasons was that UADS had a directory of 8 characters and
the 8th character was reserved for UID's needing more space in UADS
so a character was reserved (shaky here but the 8th character was
either 0, 1 2 etc) to allow more space for accounting and password
size and one or two other needs) So in effect the USERID was max 7
characters that allowed up to password and accounting info, region
size and my memory is iffy, some other info). the account change
command was difficult to work with as you might imagine I had several
choice swear words a few times trying to change some field.
In summary
UID was 7 characters.
The eighth was reserved for UADS as either 0 thru 8
Ed
On Dec 1, 2013, at 5:27 PM, David L. Craig wrote:
On 13Dec01:1758-0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <0905701904337885.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
11/30/2013
at 08:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
Is the limit HLQ or TSO prefix?
TSO limits the prefix to 7; for an explicit FQDSN it accepts an
8-character HLQ.
Do catalog services enforce a limit of 7?
No, nor does TSO.
If I remember correctly, the sole reason for limiting TSO IDs
to a maximum of seven characters was to ensure running batch
jobnames submitted by TSO users would never conflict with the
TSO session or each other.
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