David de Jongh is correct:
You are trying to pack a field that has 36^8 (2,821,109,907,456) possible combinations into a field that has 60^4 (12,960,000) combinations. You will need a hashing algorithm.
Paul states:
There is No specific example, as this routine was used in many installation to convert a VTAM NetName (LU Name) to a 4 Character Identifier. You Could Have as Input: CNI060201 TCP032AWE T00004720 WECA10
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It is typically used by CICS Terminal AutoInstall to develop CICS TERIDs.
Huh? Yes, LUNAME -> CICS TERM-ID, been there too. Paul, didn't "we" exploit the LUNAME naming convention? Like 'xxxyyynn', where xxx -> 'Chicago', 'New York', ... yyy -> dept / term-type / CU nn -> 01..99 where "we" had far fewer than 36^3 combinations and all termid's starting with 'L' (Lxxx) where generated and could be converted back to lunames...? Andreas Geissbuehler
