> On Jun 28, 2017, at 3:44 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think in my days at IBM we had job name standards that were enforced as
> UID + 1 char.
> 
> This may explain why many times I never bother coding a job card for
> trivial jobs and once the job has run, I perform an SJ command, cut ALL and
> paste ALL back into the JCL library to have a syntactically correct job
> card.
> 
> Lots of people struggle to code a job card and when I say "just delete the
> darn thing and submit", they don't know about the 1 char jobname dodge.
> 
They wouldn’t be able to submit a job unless it had correct accounting info at 
the installation I was at.. 
I wrote the code so I know it works.

Ed
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