SMFID is <= 4 characters and is independent of SYSNAME, which is <= 8 characters. They may be set the same by the installation. MVSVAR(SYSNAME) returns the LPAR name.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Ed Gould <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 09/02/2014 02:04 PM Subject: Re: z/OS SMTP server Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Sep 2, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> > And, of course, they may differ: > > user@HOST: ping $(rexx "say mvsvar(sysname)") > EZZ3111I Unknown host 'MVS3' > > Sysadmin territorial dispute: LPAR name is 4 characters (is this a > SMF restriction?) > and our nework administrators enforce their own incompatible > conventions. Gil: SMFID has a 4 character name restriction, AFAIK its been there since MVT. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
