On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:08:15 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: > >Another difference between JES2 and JES3 affecting this discussion is >the way the first three characters of the jobid are formatted. JES2 will >format 'J00' for *all* job numbers if the maximum-allowable job number >is configured above 64K. In JES3, the first three characters will >contain the value 'JOB' if the job number is small enough to fit, no >matter how high the maximum-allowable job number is configured. > They didn't *need* to make it inconsistent. Perhaps JES3 was motivated to maintain diachronic compatibility with existing art. But that works only until the 100,001st job is submitted and all that existing art breaks in a rude surprise.
Simpler is better. Hmmm... for jobs up to 99999, will the first two characters be juliet-zero or juliet-oscar? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
