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nevilh

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:19 am
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Each user can have multiple entries in the Uads dataset depending on number of logon procs they have access to etc and the blksize of the Uads dataset. First entry will be suffixed with 0 subsequent entries with 1,2,3 etc
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arunkumarvks

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:50 pm
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Hi All,
Thanks for your valuable information to know about TSO user id information.
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:18 pm
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Pedro wrote:
"Our site allows arbitrary job names"
Are you allowed to use 9 charactes for JOB name ?
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Pedro

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:53 pm
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No, the job names are still eight characters. While my userid is PEDRO, I can submit a job called COMPILE or any arbitrary name.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:05 pm
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Hello,

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Are you allowed to use 9 charactes for JOB name
The system will not allow 9-position job names. . .

Many different organizations have many different rules as to what constitutes a valid job name. . .
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:21 pm
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dick scherrer wrote:
The system will not allow 9-position job names. . .
Yup..I'm not that ignorant.. icon_smile.gif . But I think I've percepted Pedros' words differently, apologies if I took the thread in a different direction.


PS. Just for a note..even I've this
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While my userid is Anuj, I can submit a job called COMPILE or any arbitrary name.
liberty available to me.
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