I think you have to convince your management that you need two separate TSO
IDs. I know for my 21 years at P&H Mining, I almost always had a 2nd ID.
My excuse was that if something got screwed up, and I couldn't log on to fix
it, I could log on my other ID and fix my primary id, and then fix it.
Actually, there was a lady who knew DOS/VSE, which we were converting from,
when we first were going to MVS, who decided she knew more about security
than me. I was the only one in the shop with MVS experience at that time.
She insisted I have only one TSO ID. On the morning of a major conversion
for one of our biggest systems from DOS to MVS, the operator IPL'd VM one
year off. After I found that out, we re-ipl'd with the correct date.
Anyone who was logged on with the wrong date was expired and couldn't log
on, including myself. The lady who wouldn't give me a 2nd ID wasn't home,
and I couldn't log on and fix any of the people who were in trying to
install the new system. I think it was about 2 hours before she called and
gave me her password so I could reset everyones ID. I got my 2nd ID quite
quickly after that.
Security isn't the only reason for having 2 TSO ids. I also had a dumb
terminal, which I still like better for most TSO work. It was right next to
my PC. When I wanted to look at full screens of data and compare things, it
worked out great.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OK, this is not possible. And many out there may wonder why in the world
I would want to do this. But I've run into a slight problem. I need to
be looking at an IPCS dump, doing some long-running functions. While
this is going on, I cannot use my TSO session for anything else. And I
cannot have two TSO sessions going simultaneously. Even if I could have
two TSO sessions with the same RACF id, I couldn't have two ISPF
sessions. So, it would be really useful to me to be able to do all my
IPCS work using a UNIX shell. I can have multiple UNIX shells active
concurrently. Oh, I cannot have a second RACF id because that violates
company policy.
But I wonder if enough people out there think this would be useful. If
so, perhaps it should be a SHARE requirement? Or is there a SHARE
requirement for a single RACF id to be able to logon to multiple TSO and
ISPF sessions on a single z/OS image (or parallel sysplex)? Sorry, I
know we are SHARE members here, but I know zip about it or how to logon
to its web site or much of anything else.
--
John McKown
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