I would not expect the Perfkit WEB interface to provide for changing
passwords, but it must provide sufficient information for failures so tha
t
the user knows who to turn to for assistance. Please provide as much erro
r
description as possible.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:15:52 -0500, Roger Lunsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Yes I recently worked with a customer regarding this same issue. What i
t
>comes down to the Perfkit WEB Interface is not designed for this and we
>are a basic user interface.
>My response in the PMR was:
>-We do not provide the support for applications to change user passwords
>and there ar eno plans to add this support.
>-To change a password that does not have an associated z/VM user ID you
>must get a SYSADMIN to change it for you (or the shop must have set up
>some self-help automation to handle it).
>-However, it looks like in R530 you can do what you are after!!!..check
>this out:
> Starting in z/VM 530 we have abillity to set a NOEXPIRED password:
> RAC ALTUSER PERF2 PASSWORD(xxxxxx) NOEXPIRED
> thus when you initially set your password it will not be expired.
> and then he can also set
> RAC password user( PERF2 ) nointerval
> so the password will not expire in the future.
>We are however looking into the Perfkit and "return code handling" from
>our calls to DMSPASS...so we could possibly change some messages and suc
h
>in the future, but I do not see us "handling" password changes/etc for t
he
>aformentioned reasons.
>I hope this helps clarify the concern.
>Best Regards, Roger Lunsford Perfkit/CP Level2
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