Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201011051531014300.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/05/2010 at 03:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Even subject to an 8 or 7 character limitation on user names it would be valuable to have a longer PREFIX. I submitted such a requirement decades ago. Maybe it's time for

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 201011061422.59279.ibm...@woodsway.com, on 11/06/2010 at 02:23 PM, Bob Woodside ibm...@woodsway.com said: On Friday 05 November 2010 16:46, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In b351325f7e2c494a8783b83dbf3d5390145996d...@hdxmspa.us.lmco.com, on 11/05/2010 at 09:46 AM, Roach, Dennis

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1e60a9b549a90840947ceda0609404c76eb...@embx-cham4.cdc.gov, on 11/05/2010 at 09:08 PM, Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) z...@cdc.gov said: You cannot run a batch job with the same name unless you logoff and back on to allow the 8 character batch job to run. Yes you can. Thus, the 7

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktim-wtqsb0db_mgzg__fvz7dyh+mh7pjchjo7...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/05/2010 at 02:51 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: Notably, OS/VS1 had an RJE facility run by its JES RES came along well after TSO, so it made sense to pirate some of the TSO code. the DEST keyword of TSO's

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240808c8faa08b3...@[192.168.1.11], on 11/06/2010 at 02:13 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: I beg to differ. Originally there was SPF with an optional product called PDF which ran under it. Are you a betting man? You could get only SPF or both. No; the name had changed

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201011051632024888.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/05/2010 at 04:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Yaaay! They could even assimilate much code from an x3270-type utility; even preserve the ISPF look-and-feel for those who like it. The ESA GUI is an interface to ISPF; it

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Dover
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Frank Swarbrick Skickat: den 9 november 2010 00:35 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myn tet.se, Thomas Berg

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-10 Thread Scott Rowe
news:e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fsp a.myntet.se... -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Frank Swarbrick Skickat: den 9 november 2010 00:35 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-10 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:32, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Flynn is dead. TRON is dead. *LONG LIVE THE MCP!* I am sure Unisys would be glad to see that sentiment expressed on an IBM forum. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN

SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Frank Swarbrick Skickat: den 9 november 2010 00:35 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-09 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: One maybe possible solution would be having a sort

SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Clark Morris Skickat: den 5 november 2010 20:51 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On 5 Nov 2010 07:18:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you

Re: SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:19:17 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of alias for the longer id's. E g id's constructed as consecutive numbers: #123456. And automatically substitute with the when needed (jobnames etc.). z/OS Unix System Services provides such

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters?

2010-11-08 Thread john gilmore
This thread seems to have switched its attention from lamentations to circumventions, and these of course abound. The IBM HLASM supports an alias statement: begin snippet from HLASM LR The ALIAS instruction specifies alternate names for the external symbols that identify control

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Andreas F. Geissbuehler
Yes, the UADS and broadcast dataset required a solution which could be implemented efficiently using BDAM, BPAM and/or BSAM (pick one) to get a few hundred bytes off a 2314 disk (7294 bytes / track) too big for full-track blocking. In 1968 an IBM 360/50 with 256K (kilobytes) was a mid-range

Re: SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread John McKown
november 2010 20:51 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On 5 Nov 2010 07:18:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:4... One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of alias for the longer id's. E g id's constructed

SV: SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Berg
   SWEDBANK -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För John McKown Skickat: den 8 november 2010 21:39 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters I like that thought. UNIX does this by mapping a user

Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Frank Swarbrick
On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of alias for the longer id's. E g id's constructed as consecutive numbers: #123456. And

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 16:35 -0700, Frank Swarbrick wrote: On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of alias for the longer

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/8/2010 4:35 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: On 11/8/2010 at 7:19 AM, in message e46b4df55a5e8746855078ae31f1b1804957e00...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, Thomas Bergthomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: One maybe possible solution would be having a sort of alias for the longer id's. E g id's

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:46 -0400 on 11/05/2010, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters: In b351325f7e2c494a8783b83dbf3d5390145996d...@hdxmspa.us.lmco.com, on 11/05/2010 at 09:46 AM, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com said: ISPF did not exist. Its

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Shane
And then there were those of us fortunate enough to have also experienced the Fujitsu/FACOM equivalents. One significant contributor to this list has even admitted appreciating the opportunity. No accounting for taste ... Shane ... On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:13:23 -0400 Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use the

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip I am quite convinced TSO was from a later period, after MVT and with 3270 screens. -unsnip--- In the distant past, I used TSO on 2741 terminals, as well as 2260

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- I used 2741 with TSO on SVS. Line mode only. ISPF did not exist. Its predecessor (SPF/PDF) required 3270. All working from TSO READY. Try the TSO EDIT command from ready some time. Make you like vi.

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread J R
member, defies credibility. At best, this is a non sequitur. The OP's question was, Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters? The explanation given relies on the fact that the userid was already defined as less than eight characters. I used TSO under MVT in the early '70s on 2741s (and SPF

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:06:09 -0400, J R wrote: I'm not sure I buy this highly speculative explanation. There's a big difference between not allowing multiple blocks per member and not considering second blocks to be necessary. Furthermore, to solve the problem by introducing multiple members

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Bob Woodside
On Friday 05 November 2010 16:46, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In b351325f7e2c494a8783b83dbf3d5390145996d...@hdxmspa.us.lmco.com, on 11/05/2010 at 09:46 AM, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com said: Try the TSO EDIT command from ready some time. I have. Make you like vi.

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread J R
. Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 10:45:08 -0500 From: paulgboul...@aim.com Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:06:09 -0400, J R wrote: I'm not sure I buy this highly speculative explanation. There's a big difference between

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread J R
No. I have no problem with TSO EDIT. Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:23:01 -0400 From: ibm...@woodsway.com Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On Friday 05 November 2010 16:46, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:27:26 -0400, J R wrote: Good point. However, update-in-place really only *need* be done during the user's session to record profile changes, etc. Extending the member should only be necessary when the ACCOUNT command is adding segments, in which case it shoul be opened

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/6/2010 12:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:27:26 -0400, J R wrote: Good point. However, update-in-place really only *need* be done during the user's session to record profile changes, etc. Extending the member should only be necessary when the ACCOUNT command is

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Ed Gould
(with 1 exception IIRC). Ed --- On Sat, 11/6/10, J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote: From: J R jayare...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 1:29 PM No.  I have no problem with TSO EDIT.  Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 5 November 2010 21:58, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I really wonder how hard this would be. But I don't know everywhere the TSO id is stored. In the few places that I have found, it seems that the ID field is defined as CL7, but there always seems to be a FL1 field next to it to

Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Robert Birdsall
This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use the institutional IDs in part because of this limitation). What is the

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Robert Birdsall bsqu...@umich.edu wrote in message news:listserv%201011050707120034.0...@bama.ua.edu... This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution,

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Scott
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Birdsall Sent: 05 November 2010 12:07 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Juergen Keller
maybe I'm wrong but I think its something historical. TSO used SYS1.UADS in the past. Every user has a member in SYS1.UADS named like his userid plus the character 0. As the length of a member is limited to 8 characters minus the 0 its only seven characters left for the userid. But there might

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, In response to Robert's question The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use the institutional IDs in part because of this limitation) This is not a mainframe limitation,

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Vernooij, CP wrote: Robert Birdsall bsqu...@umich.edu wrote: The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs ... What is the underlying technical reason for the restriction? Because jobnames submitted by users are constructed from the userid plus 1 character. Perhaps, but the most probable reason

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread John Eells
Robert Birdsall wrote: This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use the institutional IDs in part because of this

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
John Eells wrote: Originally, TSO/E user IDs were kept in the User Attribute Data Set (UADS), a PDS. User IDs with few attributes fit in a single member. User IDs with many attributes overflow into multiple members. The member naming convention is USERIDn, where n is a digit from 0 (the

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Robert Birdsall
Thanks - that was fast. John Eells and Rob Scott's replies get at the heart of 2 current technical restrictions (which is what I was looking for). These could each be potentially overcome in the future, but I'm not sure it would be worth it. It would probably be more effective to spend the

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 09:03:35 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: what in the PDS structure reduced the pds member name to a maximum of 8 chars to start with. A PDS directory has an 8 byte key and the member name in the directory is found using the Search Key High or Equal channel command. Each block

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:42:44 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: in a CVOL there were different some entries were Index entries That should be in a CVOL there were some entries were Index entries I should proofread before I hit send. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:42:45 -0400, John Eells wrote: Robert Birdsall wrote: This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:42:45 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Vernooij, CP wrote: Because jobnames submitted by users are constructed from the userid plus 1 character. Not mine. I regularly submit jobs with names containing up to 8 characters, all of which I control. Perhaps, but the most

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread zMan
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: ???  Are you suggesting that the design of the ADD subcommand of the ACCOUNT utility dictated the otherwise design of TSO? Tsk. Looking at TSO, design isn't a word I'd typically apply... -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote in message news:listserv%201011050924117080.0...@bama.ua.edu... On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:42:45 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Vernooij, CP wrote: Because jobnames submitted by users are constructed from the userid plus 1 character. Not mine. I

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote in message news:aanlktimo-gjxwj_=rz8c+0xc6j-x8rjaqwusg+hpd...@mail.gmail.com... On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: ???  Are you suggesting that the design of the ADD subcommand of the ACCOUNT utility dictated the

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread zMan
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: Of course TSO was designed, maybe not the way you would have done it these days, but times were different then. Um. That was sarcasm. Do I need tags? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread McKown, John
In my on-going insanity, I have been trying to comtemplate a method whereby a UNIX shell user, coming in via Telnet or SSH, could run a complete TSO environment, including full screen applications such as ISPF. This would bypass the TSO started task entirely and the TSO/VTAM 3270 stuff. IBM

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message news:a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom. .. In my on-going insanity, I have been trying to comtemplate a method whereby a UNIX shell user, coming in via Telnet or SSH, could run a complete TSO environment,

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread McKown, John
Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters McKown, John john.mck

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters I used 2741 with TSO on SVS. Line mode

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/5/2010 9:40 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: McKown, Johnjohn.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote in message news:a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom. .. In my on-going insanity, I have been trying to comtemplate a method whereby a UNIX shell user, coming in via

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Chris Mason
John I wonder how TSO worked back in the days of the 2741 keyboard/printer. I think TSO supported that device back in MVT. Imagine a startled expression! Well, I'll just take it at face value - although I must be missing what is behind this comment: Back when TSO was invented, start-stop

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:40:36 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: I am quite convinced TSO was from a later period, after MVT and with 3270 screens. See page 49 in this: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/mvt/GC28-6720-4_MVT_Guide_R21_Mar72.pdf What we don't know is not nearly as much of a

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/5/2010 10:52 AM, Chris Mason wrote: [snip lots of neat stuff] [7] Another way is to work out how to write TSO Clists as they were written before REXX support was available not forgetting to include using the EDIT command! Actually, we still teach the TSO edit command in our CLIST

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 5 November 2010 08:42, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: Originally, TSO/E user IDs were kept in the User Attribute Data Set (UADS), a PDS.  User IDs with few attributes fit in a single member. User IDs with many attributes overflow into multiple members.  The member naming convention is

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: From 'TSO/E System Programming Command Reference': ACCOUNT--ADD subcommand userid - specifies the user ID for a new entry in the UADS and the broadcast data set. value: 1-7 alphanumeric characters, beginning with an alphabetic or special character ??? Are you

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Clark Morris
On 5 Nov 2010 07:18:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:42:45 -0400, John Eells wrote: Robert Birdsall wrote: This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:43:49 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: It would really be nice to have loong user names, but then you need to (re-)consider jobnames, PREFIX, dataset names, all those macros in macros libraries, etc. Then you can look at JES2, for example, to handle that too... It

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3310ac9d797ec94db8d89ccabdea47a703115...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.net, on 11/05/2010 at 04:40 PM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com said: I am quite convinced TSO was from a later period, It wasn't. It came with OS/360 Release 20 as an option, hence the name. after MVT No. and

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktikhzvygbt7v83771ny+c=oyi57eemabgxirh...@mail.gmail.com, on 11/05/2010 at 10:54 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: Um. That was sarcasm. Do I need tags? Yes, alas. But even with tags sarcasm will go over the heads of some. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 11/05/2010 at 10:48 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Nope. I definately ran TSO on MVT. It was a SYSGEN option. I shudder to remember it. But it was with local 3277 terminals. Hey, you were using 3277

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 11/05/2010 at 10:14 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: In my on-going insanity, I have been trying to comtemplate a method whereby a UNIX shell user, coming in via Telnet or SSH, could run a complete TSO

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In b351325f7e2c494a8783b83dbf3d5390145996d...@hdxmspa.us.lmco.com, on 11/05/2010 at 09:46 AM, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) dennis.ro...@lmco.com said: ISPF did not exist. Its predecessor (SPF/PDF) required 3270. There was no SPF/PDF. The predecessor to ISPF was SPF. Try the TSO EDIT command from

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201011050917363008.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/05/2010 at 09:17 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I believe RACF will allow creating an OMVS segment with an 8-character ID, compatible with prevalent institutional IDs. What would happen if a user with such an ID submitted a

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201011050707120034.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 11/05/2010 at 07:07 AM, Robert Birdsall bsqu...@umich.edu said: What is the underlying technical reason for the restriction? Shortsightedness. The UADS was designed as a PDS, with member names containing the userid plus one extension

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters This is a curiosity question sparked by another thread. The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 3:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters In listserv%201011050917363008.0

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 11/5/2010 5:42 AM, John Eells wrote: Originally, TSO/E user IDs were kept in the User Attribute Data Set (UADS), a PDS. User IDs with few attributes fit in a single member. User IDs with many attributes overflow into multiple members. The member naming convention is USERIDn, where n is a

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You cannot run a batch job with the same name unless you logoff and back on to allow the 8 character batch job to run. Since when? I tried that as an experiment in 1981. I submitted a job, through IEBGENER, with the same name as my TSOID. I was trying to prove what you stated. I lost a beer

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:08:08 +, Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) wrote: You cannot run a batch job with the same name unless you logoff and back on to allow the 8 character batch job to run. ... I can't do that now, with my shorter-than-8-character user ID. I simply create batch jobs

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:51:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Well, if IBM fixed the WSA GUI then that would be the obvious way. Alternatively, they could write a next generation WSA that was a X client. Yaaay! They could even assimilate much code from an x3270-type utility; even preserve

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:08:08 +, Burrell, C

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve Comstock) writes: No. I was working for IBM when TSO was announced. It was then, truly an Option, and supported any kind of terminal, but it took ISPF to provide the front end for full screen 3270 type interface we're used to today. i had hacked hasp on mvt

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 16:54 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 11/05/2010 at 10:48 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Nope. I definately ran TSO on MVT. It was a SYSGEN option. I shudder to

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Cheryl Walker
For anybody who is interested, there has been a SHARE requirement to increase TSO Ids to 8 characters for 20 years. Because IBM responded and assigned it to 'Long Range Consideration', it's been sitting there neglected. The SHARE MVSE Requirements Committee has recently determined that it

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:00 -0400, Cheryl Walker wrote: For anybody who is interested, there has been a SHARE requirement to increase TSO Ids to 8 characters for 20 years. Because IBM responded and assigned it to 'Long Range Consideration', it's been sitting there neglected. The SHARE MVSE

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 11/5/2010 9:00 PM, Cheryl Walker wrote: For anybody who is interested, there has been a SHARE requirement to increase TSO Ids to 8 characters for 20 years. Because IBM responded and assigned it to 'Long Range Consideration', it's been sitting there neglected. The SHARE MVSE Requirements