We still have remnants of IDs from M&A activities.  Some of them are a 2 
character department followed by 3 random digits, the other is EMP####.   Not 
sure if they used CON#### for contractors or some other combination of letters 
for non-employees.

Rex

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Matt Hogstrom
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Userid schemes

A place I worked used initials followed by a 5 digit employee ID.  xxnnnnn


Matt Hogstrom

“It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive."
— Hogstrom



> On Jul 13, 2023, at 8:09 PM, David Spiegel 
> <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> 
>> "N" was for Number and "xxxxxxx" was a numeric value starting with 1 and 
>> being incremented for the next userid.  Since he was first in the shop, and 
>> he knew RACF, he set himself up as N0000001, I was the next person hired, 
>> and I got N0000002.


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