On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote:
> 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. TSO seems to be about as important to IBM as VSPC was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Storage_Personal_Computing > > > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
