I fully agree with the general principle that one ID must have no more than one owner. (I'll admit to exceptional cases, but I'll argue about them first.) I've never understood the reverse principle that every user must have only one ID. I think the folks who make a rule like that are simply extending the previous rule without thinking about why.
...Unless maybe they're thinking about reducing workload for the admins, who then may have to create extra IDs for each user. That doesn't apply in Mr Paice's situation. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Never cut what you can untie. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Friday, July 14, 2023 07:58 At one point some of us had two userids. SYSPROG1 ... for sysprog stuff, and a personal ID. When anyone moved on they just reallocated SYSPROG1 to a new user, and all the accesses continued to work. If you use a personal ID, you had to connect it to a lot of groups to get the access, and remove the retiree from the same groups. Role based userids are much better and less work ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
