On 3/1/2006 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:53:30 -0500
"Eight character tokenization is Mickey Mouse" - suggested for SHARE
in Anaheim.
Likewise so for z/OS data set name qualifiers. And there it's
an artificial and senseless limitation, persisting only because
of inertia.
Possibly inertia, but more likely because of the huge amount of code
that would need to be rewritten in both IBM and vendor products, and
possibly customer applications.
A subset of the affected IBM code I can think of off the top of my head
includes JCL processing, allocation, JES, DFDSS, catalog management,
TSO/E, and RACF. And the modifications may be non-trivial in some cases.
Walt
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