Well, I must share our last experience, the difficult one. We were mandated to preserve the EXACT logon sequence from the UADS days, byte for bleeping byte. The TSO user was formerly prompted for the UADS "password" which mapped to the logon proc. We had to write an exit to preserve the prompt, populate the TSO segment that contains the logon proc (each of which we had to rename) to match the UADS value, then log the user on.
You would think our crack management team would appreciate losing a keystroke sequence at logon time, times thousands of TSO users by losing the UADS baggage. But Noooooooooooo. Glad it's not my money...... -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Userids on 6/2/05 8:19 PM, Tony Babonas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh my gosh, I thought we were the last company to convert from UADS to > external security (TSS last year). It's mystifying why anyone would > "outvote" you on this count. We were years and years overdue but > we're certainly not looking back. > > I've done several of these conversions, each with the popular 3 ESMs, > all but the last were easy, transparent, and gradually phased in. > > My sympathies, > tb > Tony, I was a hold out as well. One of the main reasons was that our security people were clueless when it came to assigning userids. It was only after giving them strict guidelines and a physical threat to cut off certain pieces of their body did I let go. I still had final OK but let them do most of the work. The systems group maintain the responsibility for defining their alias in the mastercat(s). Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
