> As a side note, why won't JCL accept all legal e-mail address? I thought there was an IBM stated aim to get to this, but I cannot find it.
Certainly the recently added (Z/OS 1.3 I think) email field (WAEMAIL) in the RACF WORKATTR segment has a requirement to be unique within the RACF database. So there is a one-to-one mapping between email addresses and RACF userids. Looks like this is paving the way to achieving what you suggest. Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd Web: www.rsmpartners.com 'Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.' -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: 04 May 2020 17:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Mainframe user ID length Your claim was "You can specify pretty much anything you want in JCL." Regardless of why it is coded that way, the code is in the C/I and the error message comes from the C/I. The fact remains that you are limited in what you can specify in JCL. My first thought was that you meant that JECL had looser limits, but I couldn't find thoses paraemters in either JES2 JECL or JES3 JECL. As a side note, why won't JCL accept all legal e-mail address? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Timothy Sipples [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 1:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe user ID length Shmuel Metz wrote: >According to MVS JCL Reference, SA23-1385-40, both USER=abcdefghi and >[email protected] are illegal. That's not a JES issue. It is JES's issue. JCL is simply respecting JES limits there using that particular syntax. If you want to pass a longer user ID to something else using a different vocabulary, JCL isn't going to stop you. Example: Try using JCL to invoke z/OS's FTP client to transfer a file to an arbitrary FTP server, specifying a user ID longer than 8 characters. Can it be done? Of course it can; it's perfectly routine. You just don't use JES-related syntax, that's all. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
