On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:14:49 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: >The maximum length of a dataset name has been 44 characters since the very >earliest days of System/360. > You didn't read. I was asking not about "dataset" (ITYM "data set") names, but about symbolic alias strings.
>On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:06 PM Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:48:20 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote: >> > ... >> > ... The symbolic string must not exceed 44 characters, including all >> name segments and periods. >> > >> Thanks. I see it in: < >> <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=systems-extended-alias-support>. >> >> I wonder why IBM chose that number. It seems unduly >> restrictive; ill-considered. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
