RE: Limiting user profiles to 8 characters -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Limiting user profiles to 8 characters
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:21:28 +0000
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I realize that some screens in IBM i truncate columns to fit on 5250 screens but how happy would one be if WRKUSRPRF only showed the first few characters of the user name?
OTOH you can kick up AIX to support something like 63 characters for the user name and if you liked your listings in columnar format I can see that being an issue.
Ah, the drawbacks to text based interfaces vs GUI...

Rob Berendt

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