On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:22:12 -0400, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: >I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all >truncated as needed, of course. ... >Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no agenda.
Standard at IBM Poughkeepsie when I started here in 1984 was department number plus initials, no choice offered to most of us. I was A17GSK. Much later I inherited what must originally have been a second ID from a coworker and eventually become his primary, H37PFH1. In between, when my organization moved "home" to Fishkill, our clunky POK userids went with us to a new Fishkill system. It was a luxury when I moved into VM support to be offered the chance to choose my own ID (just because I was new on the system, not as a support privilege). There were no name requirements at all, plenty of people using nicknames, and I briefly considered NOTR but decided keeping my initials would make searches easier and went with GSKNICK. We would have run into conflicts with the POK standard in that department, because we had two John F. P.'s. ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
