> From: "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, January 22, 2007 11:05 am > > As I was doing this I was thinking 'How many times over the past 30+ years > have I done this same type of coding? There must be a better way to identify > these different groups than to have tables or files with lists of names.' > Then I had an idea this would be a lot easier if there was a z/VM directory > entry called USERDATA that would be freeform and queryable ie Q UDATA. That > way one could id a user any way he wanted to and use or not use the values. > > Does that make sense to anyone else? > Or is there something similiar already there that I have missed?
I have not used an ESM, and have historically used ACIGROUP for this purpose. I originally just put a group name in there, but when things got more complicated I used the eight bytes as eight individual one byte fields, each representing a priviledge level for differing systems.
