Apologies if I'm repeating ... With CICS 5.5... you can submit as the CICS logged on userid... https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.5.0/upgrading/process/upgrade_security.html#upgrade_security__jcl-submission
Short version: Define surrogate checks to allow the region user ID to submit jobs on behalf of these users. Configure the following feature toggles: com.ibm.cics.spool.surrogate.check=true com.ibm.cics.spool.defaultjobuser=TASK Cheers, Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN