On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:39:27 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Hmm. The CxO's admin going on extended vacation could explain a lot of bizarre >corporate policies. > Indeed. <OT> >Gorilla tape. Exchanged DIY tips this week with one our IBM reps. We have both >used this (maybe western US?) product to postpone replacing our respective >over-the-hill refrigerators. Think duct tape with a more interesting name. > I think the Eldest sibling is Gorilla Glue. Wonderful stuff. Effervesces and expands 3× to fill gaps between surfaces. Riding on the rep, they now market Tape, Epoxy, cyanoacrylate, ... </OT>
With advent of MVS UNIX, IBM provided USERIDALIASTABLE to support "lowercase or mixed case names in z/OS UNIX processing. Or perhaps certain names [which] do not conform to your installation's naming conventions. ..." (GA32-0884-30) Then IBM did several things wrong: o Aliases reside in a side-file, ’/etc/tablename’, not in RACF, so: o "Using the USERIDALIASTABLE statement degrades performance slightly." o They retained the 8-byte limit (not even 8 MBCS characters) where this would have been the ideal place to relax it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
