Thanks to all who responded - especially those who responded that I can use an upper case userid. The initial problem came from BMC's documentation that stated "this userid must be defined in lower case" and the contractor working for us confirming the (apparently incorrect) documentation from BMC. We went ahead and defined the userid as uppercase and it is working fine.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Boche Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Need RACF help defining lowercase ID Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > Waiting for z/OS 1.7 is not an option for a number of reasons - the > first being that I'm running on an MP3000 - 1.7 won't run there. Can > I get verification from somebody that I for sure can't use lower-case > RACF ID's on z/OS 1.4? > RACF has precisely three lower-case userids which are special IDs for certificate management and RACF development made them lower case to prevent users to tamper with them. Short answer: there is no way in RACF, neither today nor in z/OS 1.7, to define lower-case userids. OTOH, you have been told in other replies to your posting that you can define the userid you need in upper case and the application in question will run perfectly, so where is your problem? -- Ulrich Boche SVA GmbH, Germany IBM Premier Business Partner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
