On of my current clients uses your scheme #1, with the variation that contractors and other off-site personnel start with a 'V' for "vendor". So "VPSMIT2" instead of "PSMITH2".
For a good many years a manufacturer I worked for used, let's see ... my ID was TTGGRHB. RHB are my initials, and I think the first 'T' was for on-line TSO users; the TGG must have been a department designation. Job printouts came back and were laid out on a table for developers to pick up, so we all got familiar with each other's initials; I learned to my surprise that a much higher percentage than I would have guessed go by their middle names. After that they came under Volvo's world-wide naming scheme; IDs, DSNs, job and step names, everything changed. User IDs were a letter to indicate the corporation, then a six-digit number. No more changing IDs when a user moved to a new department, or got married or divorced. I occasionally had to log on to mainframes in Sweden to do my job, and I'm pretty sure I signed on to the same ID there as in the US. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. -Albert Einstein */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 17:22 I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all truncated as needed, of course. These are IDs I've had, won't tell ya where each was (and omitting just firstname, just lastname, or intials): 1. First initial, last name, plus a number as needed: PSMITH, PSMITH1 2. Last name || first name, with number if necessary, but always including first initial: SMITHIIP, or SMITHIP2 if needed 3. First three of last name, first two of first name, plus a number: SMIPH03 (I've always wondered how they'd deal with Kyle Fuchs or Tyrone Shipman) 4. First initial, last name, truncated to max of six with a two-digit number: I was PSMITH87; friend was TSMITH99-we never found out what the next T. Smith would get: would they reuse a hole, if any, or go to TSMIT100? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
