On 2017-02-06, at 08:29, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> Thanks, I wonder how much IBM and user code is going to have to change to >> allow this? >> I suppose it depends on whether your installation exploits the feature.
DSN prefix? SUBMIT? OUTPUT? (I'd prefer to see SUBMIT modified to relax the F80 limit.) > Very true. I know of a lot of control block which look something like: > > USERID DS 0CL8 > USERIDL DS FL1 > USERIDV DS CL7 > Why in that order rather than the reverse? All in all, it's underreaching to break compatibility for a 15% increase. While 8 is a pervasive enterprise convention, many OSes (Linux? OS X? (I just succeeded with 32)) allow far more. Better to allow a long login name to map to a short UID. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
