Non-numeric volsers with CA-1 from the beginning when they bought it from 
Uccel. Can't say why because it was before my time. I did install it once 
before they made it easier. The volser translation exits were minor compared to 
the zapping in the intercepts :)

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> On Behalf Of John McKown
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> 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.
> 
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