>>I guess IBM's thinking is that we should just treat it as a magic cookie. It >>is guaranteed to be 8 EBCDIC characters that will identify a job or the like. >>End of story. >> >Used to be 7, IIRC.
Don't you mix that up with TSO Userids which are restricted to 7 charactrers? -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN