Sorry we are competitors ....I won't say more.... Scott ford www.identityforge.com
On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > Shmuel Metz asks: >> There is support for mapping long user ids into short user ids. Does >> that support work if the access validation is in a third party LDAP >> server? > > Base z/OS includes LDAP client support, provided in the Tivoli Directory > Server for z/OS. I already answered yes, so I'll vote yes again. :-) > >>> 2. Note that you are not required to use TSO/E user IDs as user IDs. >> You are if you want to log on to TSO foreground, which is what I asked >> about. > > You perhaps missed my point there. You can consider TSO/E user IDs to be > tokens in a pool if you wish, and they may or may not be unique per > individual. That's a policy and implementation question which your > organization gets to decide. > >> But I explicitly asked about TSO. > > The original poster didn't make that clear. I did. > > Scott Ford adds: >> Sales pitch, sorry guys...I will bet there are thousands and thousands >> of users using either TSO or CMS ..of course CICS and IMS and DB2 ...we >> also sell software .......LDAP ...but I won't go there unless its >> offline. This isn't the place to try to hustle ppl > > If that comment was aimed at me, it was not well aimed. The only thing I've > been doing is suggesting solutions, most or all of which happen to require > nothing but what you have in z/OS. Let me repeat: *everybody* who licenses > *base* z/OS gets IBM's LDAP server and client. > > OK, so if this -- enhanced (or at least different) authentication and/or > authorization for TSO/E applications -- isn't a real problem for you, fine, > you can ignore this thread. Alternatively, if you don't like my proposed > solutions, send IBM a formal enhancement request through the proper > channels along with your suggested solution design. Feel free to borrow my > suggestions if you like them. No royalties are required. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) > E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
