Over the years I have supported the freeware and commercial MXI products, I have definitely seen both of these types of things from various customers.
Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: 14 March 2014 17:50 To: [email protected] Subject: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape There is a thread over on TSO-REXX about splitting up a "string" into "volume serials". This has occasioned two questions to me. 1) Has anybody ever had a VOLSER which was not exactly 6 non-blank characters for a regularly used volume? Especially any trailing blanks? 2) Has any commercial shop ever used non-numeric tape volume serials for normal in-house tapes? If so, why? I ask because, at least historically, CA-1's support of non-number tape serials was "difficult" (needed some sort of mapping exit as I recall). Just curious. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
