In <20131201232728.GA25455@dlc-dt>, on 12/01/2013
at 06:27 PM, "David L. Craig" <dlc....@gmail.com> said:
>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.
I don't know which came first in the design, but it is certainly true
that FIB relies on an appended character and that various data
structures, e.g., UADS, UPT, are hardwired for 7. Neither sets a limit
on an HLQ that is not a userid and is not specified in PROFILE PREFIX.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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