On 12/24/2011 6:45 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Considerable work will have to be done to eliminate the seven-character TSO userid maximum, and it would be a work wasted if an already obsolescent eight-character maximum replaced it.
Userid architecture is the responsibility of the operating system's security system that creates, deletes, maintains and processes them. The current z/OS standard is eight characters as implemented by SAF (RACF, ACF2, TSS, etc).
Application environments are responsible for supporting whatever the current architected userid length is. It has been asserted that TSO is the only z/OS application environment in 2011 (soon 2012) that can't handle that fundamental requirement. I'm trying to discover if that's a true statement. None of the responses I've received thus-far have offered anything to disprove that assertion. If true, fixing TSO will provide *complete* eight-character userid support for z/OS.
I agree 100% that, when TSO fixes this problem, the developers should design things to allow for longer values in the future (and I suspect they will). But, until such time that SAF actually architects longer userids, that point is moot.
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