Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >>You can wish, but big blue wants backward compatibility,
>How is that an obstacle? If they do it, I'm sure that there will be a switch >to enable the new algorithm and that, once enabled, the new algorithm will >only be used incrementally. Agreed, Shmuel. Thanks for your comment. I will be the last person to disagree with you. ;-D They have already done that 'switch'. Read the RACF books about choice of password [1] encryption. But still, they will only do that if backward compatibility is NOT compromised. If backward compatibility could be compromised, they will warn you, just like they did with some product features. You remember that phasing out of ISAM? ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - technically, for RACF, not exactly passwords are encrypted, but userids. But I used word 'password' to make a point. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
