In <[email protected]>, on 12/23/2011
at 11:47 PM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said:
>I am curious: is TSO the only hold-out?
For 7 character userids, probably. However, there are two related
issues that are global:
1. The current limit of userids to 8 characters is equally
obsolescent.
2. The limitation of DSN components no longer makes sense, now
that IBM has put a stake through the heart of CVOL's.
I agree with Paul that the TSO PROFILE PREFIX should be expanded to 42
characters. Due to control block layouts, expand it or the userid to 8
characters would be as much work as expanding them to a larger size.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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