On 2 December 2013 11:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: > In <20131201232728.GA25455@dlc-dt>, on 12/01/2013 > at 06:27 PM, "David L. Craig" <[email protected]> said: > >>If I remember correctly, the sole reason for limiting TSO IDs to a >>maximum of seven characters was to ensure running batch jobnames >>submitted by TSO users would never conflict with the TSO session or >>each other. > > I don't know which came first in the design, but it is certainly true > that FIB relies on an appended character
I'm not sure in what sense it replies on it. Nothing other than perhaps a user exit or JESn/RACF settings stops a TSO SUBMIT user from submitting a job with any jobname except the userid itself. And a user exit can allow a user to use the other FIB commands on any jobname. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
