I thought there was a standard... (perhaps 40 years ago) First 3 letters = allocated to the product. Starting with A to H is for IBM products 4th letter component within product 5...n-1 message number Last message type I,W,E,A,T Colin
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 15:22, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
