At one time, many moons ago, IBM systems which used the employee number for the userid, the world-wide 'uniqueness' was simple by prefixing the employee number by the letters GB (Great Britain) or IBM's oountry code for countries it operated in e.g. 866 for Great Britain.
Regards Parwez Hamid​ ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of David Spiegel <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: 14 July 2023 14:58 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: Userid schemes Hi Paul, You said: "...Just remarking that "man number" is conspicuously gender-specific. ..." True, but, you have to remember the historical context for it. You said: "...IBM has over 300,000 employees. Are the numbers required to be unique? ..." AFAIK, my number was unique in Canada. My Retain ID had to be changed because someone else (probably an American) already was using my Man Number to LOGON. Regards, David On 2023-07-14 09:45, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:43:49 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >> EEOC is an American thing. In Canada, we have an equivalent. >> > Just remarking that "man number" is conspicuously gender-specific. > >> Please explain: "... Five digits isn't enough. ..." Enough for what? >> > IBM has over 300,000 employees. Are the numbers required to be unique? > >> (I think you're confusing employee number with SIN (equivalent to >> American SSN). > >> On 2023-07-13 22:53, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:56:55 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >>>> When I worked at IBM Canada full time (1994-2002), our TSO Userids were >>>> XXnnnnn, where nnnnn was a person's "man number" (aka employee number). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
