Aw: Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
The result when running TSO TEST in batch under an 8 char userid is shown below. > //BATCH EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 > //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* > //SYSTSIN DD * > TEST *(IEBGENER) > L 10.%%+4%+b4%+108% x L(17) > END > > The first 7 bytes will be PSCBUSER. All bytes are blank (x'40') and the length value

AW: Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> Could you run it and share the results? Will do. -- Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:16:14 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >Let me try to conclude this thread as it has drifted apart from the original >question to the question whether an 8 char (MVS) userid can become valid TSO >user (which it *cannot*). > >My interest was to find out why some TSO commands ca

AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Let me try to conclude this thread as it has drifted apart from the original question to the question whether an 8 char (MVS) userid can become valid TSO user (which it *cannot*). My interest was to find out why some TSO commands can be used in a *batch* job while others (which?) cannot when th

Aw: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> What do you consider an 8 character TSO ID? I never talked about an "8 character TSO ID", did I? I always wrote (or meant to write) "8 character userid". And by "userid" I mean a userid as understood by MVS, and this has always been allowed to be 8 characters in length. (I'm sure someone will

Aw: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> Before any TSO commands may be entered, the LOGON command must be used with a > valid TSO User ID. This is not true if you run TSO in batch (EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01, etc.). You can definitely run TSO commands under an 8 char userid, although you cannot *logon* to TSO. I do understand that a userid

AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
> No, I don't think there is a way to define a valid 8 character TSO userid. ... Yep, understand that. But that wasn't the question. The question is why some (most?) TSO commands are working fine under an 8 char userid, whereas some like CONSOLE obviously don't. It's mostly my own curiosity t