Your claim was "You can specify pretty much anything you want in JCL."
Regardless of why it is coded that way, the code is in the C/I and the error message comes from the C/I. The fact remains that you are limited in what you can specify in JCL. My first thought was that you meant that JECL had looser limits, but I couldn't find thoses paraemters in either JES2 JECL or JES3 JECL. As a side note, why won't JCL accept all legal e-mail address? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Timothy Sipples [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 1:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe user ID length Shmuel Metz wrote: >According to MVS JCL Reference, SA23-1385-40, both >USER=abcdefghi and [email protected] 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: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
