In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:21:32 -0500 > > >It's distinctly IBM's dog, > You owe an apology to the dogs. ;-) > > Userids were 7 characters. It never occurred to them that there was a > need for prefixes that were not userids. Then they implemented it with > a 7-byte field *followed* by a one-byte length field. > How did they rationalize ignoring the customers who, to avoid catalog proliferation, assign multiple TSO User IDs to a single HLQ?
> No. It was carelessness, pure and simple. BTW, they've already > rejected a requirement to expand it. > Such rejections can be reversed. I wonder how many Requirements, once rejected, were satisfied, at least in part, by USS^H^H^H Unix Services. I'd conjecture: o Concurrent interactive sessions for a single user. o Bigger filename space. ... to think of a couple. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
