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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 12, 2014

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname
is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equal to the parent jobname. This processing is documented in the USS Planning Book. Chapter 20. Section 'Generating job names for OMVS address spaces'.

This processing causes usability issues when submitting MVS commands. If processing works fine with an 8 character jobname, which it does, then at least an option should be provided to allow
for the child processes to be the same name as the parent process when the jobname is <8 characters.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 24, 2021

    .This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
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    Nov 13, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #61991 in product z/OS.