In a recent note, Ed Gould said: > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:56:24 -0500 > > > And, I wish z/OS supported volsers _much_ longer than six characters. ... > > An idea but you might wish to think it through a little bit. Remember > that someone would have to key it in (either on a keyboard or a card > punch) I am sure the people would start a witch hunt and you might > want to hide:) > I understand. Let me try to rescue my proposal:
Allow the RMS-wary programmer to enter a shorter string as the volser, which the system or application would pad on the right with blanks to the full allowed length. This is similar to the way data set names are handled now. I have heard no complaint that the 44-character z/OS limit on data set names is inconveniently large and should be decreased. I might, though, need to take refuge from tape management systems developers armed with torches and pitchforks. -- 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
