On 12/15/2017 7:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 01:09:58 -0500, Sam Golob wrote:
One way of getting around it is not to turn on the 8-character id
support. But people in IBM have told me that they want to eventually
make 8-character id support the default, so we've got to get there
sooner or later.
Underreaching. 8 is the minimum accepted by many organizations. But
many OSes support much longer. As long as an incompatible change is
being made, they should have gone to much longer than 8. At the very
least, the new fields could have been made larger than 8 to accommodate
possible future enhancements.
Not underreaching, nor did they make an incompatible change. They made a
*compatible* one!
MVS added support for 8-character userids back in 1995. It's been
supported ever since in every subsystem and middleware component (JES,
CICS, DB2, RACF, etc) with one exception: TSO/E.
Now, 22 years later, TSO/E has finally caught up to the rest of the
operating system -- and they did it an a way that is extensible to any
length that can can be expressed in a single byte.
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