Good point. "A path name can be up to 1023 characters long, including all directory names, file names, and separating slashes." So 1023; I stand corrected. The "program name" (defined how? as the final node of the path name?) would have to be somewhat less, but certainly in the 21st century might be well over 8.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 5:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMF Type 30 Charles Mills wrote: >Isn't it now (since around 1993 or so) 1024 for a USS program? Including / excluding path length? >Compare SMF30EXN. Indeed. After RTFM in my SMF bookie (Ok, v1.12 for now, I will check v1.13 and v2.1 bookies later), I see this interesting snippet: <quote> The field SMF30EXN provides the name of the program that was run. It is specified as up to 16 characters. MVS load modules can be distinguished from HFS executable files in the SMF30EXN field as follows: - Names that are longer than 8 bytes must be HFS executable files - For names that are 8 bytes or less, check the terminating character: - X'00'--HFS executable file (z/OS UNIX program) - X'40'--MVS load module (MVS program) <end-quote> Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
