[Default] On 7 Mar 2017 16:15:09 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today? >>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html&request_locale=en >> >>I found this interesting: >> >><quote> >>New support is planned to be added to allow TSO/E user IDs to be eight >>characters long. >></quote> >> >And I read: > For JES2 in z/OS V2.3, JCL, ... The DLM keyword on SYSIN is extended from > 2 characters to 18 characters to provide more granularity. > >"granularity"? > >Underreaching. It should be as big as possible to provide the programmer >maximum confidence of no accidental match within the data. I'd suggest >71, probably the longest value in a SYSIN line. > >Why not JES3, also? My cynical reaction dating back to MVS/XA 2.2 is that IBM wants to charge you more for being trailing edge such as forcing JES3 customers to by Bulk Data Transfer if they wanted SNA/NJE (a product that got dead ended) and providing SMS in the JES2 environment (this may have been MVS/SP) but not the JES3 environment. Clark Morris > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
