Thanks to all that responded.the problem is that some vendors, and sometimes ibm break the rules (msg prefix out of the ibm range msg length). May not all of the register their prefixes with ibm.
ITschak *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* בתאריך יום ה׳, 19 בדצמ׳ 2024 ב-17:22 מאת Phil Smith III <[email protected]>: > Thanks, Peter and all. I'm disappointed to find this out so late. There > were several folks involved in early implementation who decades of z/OS > experience, and apparently none of them were aware of this. > > The fact that this discussion took a while to get to definitive references > is also perhaps indicative that this isn't as well known as it might > could/should be. That's not a criticism per se, just an observation--not > sure how anyone could fix it at this juncture. I suspect the real solution > is to fire up the DeLorean and go back to 1964, make sure this is canon > across all OS/360 software teams... > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Peter Relson > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2024 8:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS message code length > > One might say that a "token" longer than 10 characters at the beginning of > a message is not a message ID. > > Another place where the limit is "used" is in National Language Support. > NLS skeletons provide room for only 10 characters for the message ID. > Another place is the MSGID parameter of the SLIP command which includes > the documentation "The input MSGID can be a maximum of 10 characters". > > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Technology Design > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
