Aw: Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-11 Thread Peter Hunkeler
The result when running TSO TEST in batch under an 8 char userid is shown below. //BATCH EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * TEST *(IEBGENER) L 10.%%+4%+b4%+108% x L(17) END The first 7 bytes will be PSCBUSER. All bytes are blank (x'40') and the length value at the

AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Let me try to conclude this thread as it has drifted apart from the original question to the question whether an 8 char (MVS) userid can become valid TSO user (which it *cannot*). My interest was to find out why some TSO commands can be used in a *batch* job while others (which?) cannot when

Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:16:14 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: Let me try to conclude this thread as it has drifted apart from the original question to the question whether an 8 char (MVS) userid can become valid TSO user (which it *cannot*). My interest was to find out why some TSO commands can be

AW: Re: AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-10 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Could you run it and share the results? Will do. -- Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AW: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
No, I don't think there is a way to define a valid 8 character TSO userid. ... Yep, understand that. But that wasn't the question. The question is why some (most?) TSO commands are working fine under an 8 char userid, whereas some like CONSOLE obviously don't. It's mostly my own curiosity

Aw: Re: Authorizing 8 char technical userid to use TSO CONSOLE command

2014-07-08 Thread Peter Hunkeler
What do you consider an 8 character TSO ID? I never talked about an 8 character TSO ID, did I? I always wrote (or meant to write) 8 character userid. And by userid I mean a userid as understood by MVS, and this has always been allowed to be 8 characters in length. (I'm sure someone will