>>> On 10/2/2009 at 3:08 PM, in message <listserv%[email protected]>, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:53:12 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote: > >>On my local systems the jobnames default to userid + one character. If I >>submit JCL with a job card that uses //BOLAN JOB the system will >>automatically prompt me for the last letter. So no editing of the JCL is >>necessary to control the jobname. I had assumed that this was typical. >> > That's only if you use the TSO or ISPF SUBmit commands. > > But those limit you to fixed-80 input. Ugh!
I did not know about this. I knew that if you omited the JOB card altogether than TSO/ISPF would prompt for "JOBNAME CHARACTER(S)", but I didn't know it did if you simply had your userID as the job name. Still I find the use of having your user ID on it extremely limiting. Especially if your user ID is 7 characters! (At SHARE I noticed that Peter Van Dyke's user ID is VANDYKE. So he'd be really limited. And is an 8 character user ID not allowed?) There are better ways to find your output, so why limit yourself? If I submitted a large set of jobs and then wanted to look at the output and all I saw was FJS1, FJS2, FJS3, etc; yikes! No good. Meaningful names are good. Frank -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
