Recently, the need for eight-character TSO userids made it into the list of the
highest ranked MVS SHARE requirements. Many installations, driven by their
business units, are attempting to standardize on a single, eight-character,
cross-platform userid. These attempts are being hampered by the arcane
seven-character TSO userid restriction introduced in the 1970s.
It has been said that every IBM and ISV-written system running on z/OS today can
handle eight-character userids, with one exception: TSO. Commercial external
security managers (e.g., RACF), IMS, DB2, CICS, batch, NJE, even other operating
systems like z/VSE and z/VM support eight-character userids.
I am curious: is TSO the only hold-out? Or are there other systems or subsystems
that also don't support the full eight-character IDs?
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-338-0400 x318
[email protected]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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