>From the JCL reference manual for the DD statement: [volume] serial-number subparameters (1 - 255): volume serial numbers (1 - 6 alphanumeric, $, #, @, or special characters)
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Smith Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 3:43 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: [email protected] Subject: Re: curious: volsers < 6 non-blank chars & non-numeric tape Wasn't able to find a architectual requirement for MVS vol sers via search at IBM. But can report I just initialized DASD volumes with the names of 'K' and '0' (zero). MVS doesn't seem to care but other components might. Ken On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:07 PM, R.S. <[email protected]>wrote: > W dniu 2014-03-14 18:49, John McKown pisze: > >> 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. >> >> > 2. Yes. We use alphanumeric volsers. Why? Naming convention. BTW: I know > several shops, including large one which are using letters in volser. > > 1. While shorter volume serials are clearly "legal" and possible, the > spaces or special characters are simply out of standard, aren't they? > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > -- > Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku > przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być > jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś > adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej > przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, > rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie > zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, > prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale > usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub > zapisane na dysku. > > This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is > intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be > received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If > you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee > authorized to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any > dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is > legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by > mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in > your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any > copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. > > mBank S.A. z siedzibą w Warszawie, ul. Senatorska 18, 00-950 Warszawa, > www.mBank.pl <http://www.mbank.pl/>, e-mail: [email protected] Sąd > Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru > Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. > Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2014 r. kapitał zakładowy mBanku S.A. (w > całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.696.052 złote. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
