Shmuel Metz wrote: >According to MVS JCL Reference, SA23-1385-40, both >USER=abcdefghi and EMAIL=foo+...@patriot.net are >illegal. That's not a JES issue.
It is JES's issue. JCL is simply respecting JES limits there using that particular syntax. If you want to pass a longer user ID to something else using a different vocabulary, JCL isn't going to stop you. Example: Try using JCL to invoke z/OS's FTP client to transfer a file to an arbitrary FTP server, specifying a user ID longer than 8 characters. Can it be done? Of course it can; it's perfectly routine. You just don't use JES-related syntax, that's all. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN