In <p06240804cb1f0f7428fe@[192.168.1.11]>, on 12/27/2011
at 01:08 AM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said:
>The problem with allowing TSO to use 8 Character USERIDs is that it
>makes some TSO commands fail. Jobnames are 8 characters max. Submit
>(at least ISPF Automatic Submit) adds a one character suffix to the
>UserID and thus breaks if the UserID is 8 Characters
SUBMIT uses the job name in the JOB statement if there is one.
>Also OUTPUT (used by ISPF 3.8) validates that the JOBNAME is
>UserID+1_Character and thus would not be able to handle 8
>character UserIDs.
That would be a trivial fix. The hard part would be catching all of
the references to prefix and userid in TSO contol blocks.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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