Even though it was in my mind, I didn't dare asking for a full fledged
solution: a comment record doesn't require extra coding.
At my former customer's installation, the first record following USER
had the name of the person (or role if SVM), and was indeed carried
over to RACF as well.

2009/2/10 Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>:
> On Tuesday, 02/10/2009 at 09:12 EST, Kris Buelens <kris.buel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Has it been suggested already that the sample CP directory would
>> contain, for each userid, a one sentence description?
>
> Yes.  (It was suggested here previously so that RACF initialization can
> associate a name/purpose with a user ID.)  I have some concerns about
> storing metadata in comments in the directory, but I guess I can get over
> it.
>
> I prefer to have such data stored in the object directory where it can be
> interrogated, updated, and supported by a wide variety of Interested
> Parties.  However, in the case of Sooner v. Later, more complex solutions
> always side with Later.  Though maybe, with apologies to Voltaire, I
> shouldn't allow the Perfect to become the enemy of Good Enough?
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
>



-- 
Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

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