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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 29, 2018

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z/OSMF import policy data not possible with a userid that only can perform logon with a passphrase

I am not able to import policy data in the configuration assistant plugin in z/OSMF with a userid that only has a password phrase. Our high privileged users do not have a password, they have a password phrase only. The import policy data password field doesn't accept more than 8 characters and doesn't accept blanks to build a phrase. z/OSMF allows users to login with passphrases therefore this must be supported in all plugins as well.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     May 24, 2018

    Thank you for letting us know your use case. As mentioned before, the policy import function is deprecated and we are not enhancing it. It already doesn't import many newer parameters and functions and that will get more out of date as more releases ship, so you are likely to find this use case less useful over time. You might want to consider switching to use the Configuration Assistant as your primary method for managing your policy configuration files.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 16, 2018

    We usually do our PAGENT config manually. For new features I use the configuration assistent to have a sample. I occasionally also import the existing config to modify and add new things to have updated samples for my config.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 11, 2018

    The policy import function is deprecated and no further enhancements are planned. It's worth noting that this has been the case since V2R2 and the function does not import new functions or parameters added after V2R1. For more information, see item 7 in the "What's New for V2R2 Configuration Assistant" section of the help (you can reach this page by clicking on "What's New" in the "Learn More about Configuration Assistant" table on the start page for the Configuration Assistant.

    Can you give us some information on why you are still using this function? Are you moving to Configuration Assistant for the first time, or is there another use case that you are exploiting?

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