I am personnally waiting for the UserID "passphrase" something in the 64-128 character range..
with an optional cursory DNA scanner with life sign detection. Rob Schramm On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:17 AM John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > As the owner of the TSO/E plan at the time, I was stunned when SHARE > told us this was the top priority for TSO/E. We pushed back. We said > "what about longer IDs that map into the 7-character namespace instead"? > "What about these other TSO/E requirements"? But those who maintained > this was #1 stood firm, dissents outside IBM seemed few and far between, > and we ultimately did it. The kicker was, if I recall correctly, > recurrent audit exceptions from those whose security policies require > user IDs of eight or more characters. > > That the change had so little fallout is actually a testament to the > effectiveness of our change notification process to IBM development and > other software vendors. (This change set a new record for affected > components, as it happens, shattering the old one by a factor of at > least two and perhas has high as four.) > > > Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 7/21/2018 10:40 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > >> FWIW I think there was pressure from shops with 8-character IDs > elsewhere > >> who wanted consistency on z/OS. > >> > >> Not saying it was a good idea, or a bad idea, just sayin' ... > > > > No. It was a desire for consistency *within* z/OS. I cover this change > > beginning on slide 42 of my "z/OS V2R3 User Experiences" SHARE > > presentation. Here's a link to the slide deck for the most recent > > incarnation from Sacramento: > > > http://share.confex.com/data/handout/share/130/Session_22307_handout_11384_0.pdf > > > > > > In summary, eight-character userids were supported by MVS 4.2 way back > > in 1995. That support extended to every subsystem and environment across > > the stack (the BCP, RACF, JES, CICS, DB2, etc.) with one exception: > > TSO/E. The design of the old TSO account file -- which long predated > > RACF -- led to an unfortunate decision to restrict TSO userids to seven > > characters. After 22 years, that restriction was finally lifted in 2017 > > with z/OS 2.3 TSO/E. > > > > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
