Patrick Loftus wrote: >Looks like 8 character TSO userid support in z/OS v2r3 >http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA51203
At last, many thanks, but that APAR is for a third party product? I believe many program modules and control blocks might need to be revised. That is a major project on its own... Of course RACF and SDSF for example, are already fixed by now to handle ids with length 1 - 8 chars. When we're at v2.3, I need to revise that TSO PREFIX to see if any changes are needed and my ISPF exit 16 for example. John McKown wrote: >Very true. I know of a lot of control block which look something like: >USERID DS 0CL8 >USERIDL DS FL1 >USERIDV DS CL7 And lots of similar control blocks/macros in RACF, say from SYS1.MACLIB(IHAACEE): ACEEUSER DS 0CL9 ACEEUSRL DS AL1 ACEEUSRI DS CL8 Yes, my sample above is for a full 8 char id, but this show that layout is similar and generally used for many such fields. Generally, these layouts are definition of full field starting with length and rest of that field sometimes padded to right with x'40'. Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> USERID DS 0CL8 >> USERIDL DS FL1 >> USERIDV DS CL7 >Why in that order rather than the reverse? Do you have any samples of the reverse? Just curious of course. But about 'why' - It is simply because how Assembler is working with [yet unknown at start of processing] offsets inside a record trying to figure out length of individual fields and offsets of each. > UADS has outlived its usefulness. False. If RACF is dead, what then? Yes, there are 1001 other ways to recover [1] from that scenario, but having an 7 char TSO id in UADS, simply eliminates many [or some if you like] steps to recovery. (with several replies on console during a RACF FAILSOFT time) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - You must be fully prepared BEFORE any failure of course, otherwise you're SOL! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
