I'm asking about the user ID, not the password/pass phrase. But thanks. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 2:03 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Mainframe user ID length
RACF can now handle 'password phrase' of considerable length and/or upper/lower case passwords. If you allow lower case, you can end up with a mess. With traditional upper-only system option, a password typed e.g. via TSO gets automatically translated to upper case with no user notification. With the system option set to lower case allowed, that translation does not occur. This means that every password entry *must* also be lower case. Some logon environments may not allow lower case. Worse, if there is a severe problem that requires fallback to upper only, a user with a lower case password may not be able to logon at all. This is an all or nothing option. Allowing or disallowing lower case affects all environments at the same time. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Mainframe user ID length CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL Is z/OS still limited in all cases to 8 upper case characters? I am curious if a user that only has access to MQ might be able to have a longer and ideally mixed case user ID. They wouldn't have access to TSO or CICS or IMS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
