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Specifying Autosignon Options—LTERM/USER Options

The Autosignon Options – LTERM/USER Options panel allows you to specify ETA LTERM/USER basic options for Autosignon.

Panel Flow – Specifying Autosignon Options—LTERM/USER Options

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Before you begin

A user access profile must give you authority to specify or change data for the appropriate IMSIDs. Contact your ETA system administrator.

If you want to use the ETA option that allows multiple signons per user ID, the user IDs for your facility must be less than eight characters long.

If you want to propagate user ID or password information to IMS through VTAM USERDATA, you must configure your session manager to provide this information. If you want to use keywords to identify the information, you must use commas or spaces as delimiters between keywords.

To Specify Basic Autosignon Options—LTERM/USER Options

  1. Go to the Autosignon Options – LTERM/USER Options panel.
    1. From the ETA Main Menu, type 5 in the Selection field and press Enter. The IMSID/Group Options Entry panel is displayed.
    2. From the IMSID/Group Options Entry panel, type 1 in the Selection field with the IMSID specified in the IMSID or Group field and press Enter. The Edit IMSID Options panel is displayed.
    3. From the Edit IMSID Options panel, type 6 in the Selection field and press Enter. The IMSID Options – Autosignon Options panel is displayed.
    4. From the IMSID Options – Autosignon Options panel, type 2 in the Selection field and press Enter. The Autosignon Options – LTERM/USER Options panel is displayed.

  2. Specify how to create LTERM and user names and whether to allow users to Autosignon more than once per user ID.

    1. Under the heading LTERM/USER option, type one of the following values:

       

      If you want the LTERM and USER names to equal the...

      Then type...

      User ID if present

      1 in the selection field. You must also activate the Propagate password to IMS option available from the Logon Options – ETA Defaults panel.

      Node name

      2 in the selection field.

       

      If you select option 1 but user ID information is not available, the LTERM and USER names will equal the node name.

    2. Allow multiple signons per userid –Activate this option to allow users to sign on more than once per user ID.The first time an IMS user signs on, ETA uses the user ID as the name of the LTERM and USER structure for that user ID. In subsequent signons, a suffix is attached to the user ID to create additional LTERM and USER names based on that user ID. If you choose Custom suffixing, the first signon will be suffixed.

      Warning

      Note

      For this option to operate properly, you must perform the following tasks:

      • Specify a value of G, M, or Z for the SGN parameter in the IMS control region.
      • Specify that LTERM and USER names should equal the user ID in the LTERM/USER option field.
      • Complete the Suffixing type and Maximum sessions per userid fields.
      • The suffix added to the base user ID will be between one and three characters in length, depending on the length of the user ID.
      • For example, if ABC is your user ID and you have selected numerical suffixing, the first LTERM name will be ABC, the second will be ABC001, the third will be ABC002, etc. If ABCDEF is your user ID, ETA can only append a two-character suffix, so the first LTERM name will be ABCDEF, the second will be ABCDEF01, the third will be ABCDEF02, and so forth.
      • The length of your user ID and the suffixing technique you choose are the only factors that limit the maximum number of signons per user ID.

    3. Suffixing type –If you have activated the ETA option that allows users to sign on more than once with a single user ID, you must select the type of suffixing that ETA will perform when creating LTERM and USER structures.The following values are valid for this field:

       

      If you type...

      ETA appends the suffix using...

      1 in the selection field

      characters 1 to 9

      2 in the selection field

      characters 1 to F

      3 in the selection field

      characters A to Z and 0 to 9

      4 in the selection field

      a user-defined suffix list

       

      The type of suffixing you choose depends on the number of signons per user ID you want to allow and the length of the user IDs at your organization. If user IDs are seven or fewer characters long and you require less than 10 signons per user ID, any of the suffixing techniques will be sufficient. If user IDs are seven characters long and you require up to 36 signons per user ID, alphanumeric suffixing will be sufficient.

      Use the Custom suffixing option, if you require complete control of suffix data.

      Warning

      Note

      If you choose Custom suffixing, the first signon will be suffixed.

    4. Maximum sessions per userid –If you have activated the ETA option that allows users to sign on more than once with a single user ID, specify the maximum number of times a user can sign on with a single user ID in this field.

      Warning

      Note

      The maximum number of sessions available per user ID depends on the length of the user ID and the suffixing technique that you choose.

    5. Include static terminal sessions in calculation –If you have activated the ETA option that allows users to sign on more than once with a single user ID, activate or deactivate the option that includes static terminal sessions in the number of sessions calculation.

      Warning

      Note

      Whether you activate or deactivate this option, the number of static terminals that can sign on is not limited.

      Type a slash (/) in this field to activate the option, or type a blank in this field to deactivate it.

    6. Suffix length (for CUSTOM Suffixing type) –Specify a valid length for each user-defined suffix in the Suffix list field if you have selected CUSTOM in the Suffixing type field.Valid values for this field are characters 1 to 3.

      Warning

      Note

      You must populate the Suffix length and Suffix list fields if you have specified C (custom) in the Sufx Type field on the Autosignon and Signon TSS tables.

    7. Suffix list (for CUSTOM Suffixing type) –Specify a user-defined suffix if you have selected CUSTOM in the Suffixing type field.

    Enter a list of user-defined suffixes. Do not use commas, spaces, or any other characters to delimit each suffix in the list; however, spaces can be used as part of the user-defined suffix.

    The Suffix length field determines the length of each suffix. For example, if you have specified 2 in the Suffix length field and you have entered A1A2A3A4A5A6A7A8A9AA in the Suffix list field, the first user-defined suffix is A1, the second is A2, and so forth.

    Warning

    Note

    You must populate the Suffix length and Suffix list fields if you have specified C (custom) in the Sufx Type field on the Autosignon and Signon TSS tables.

  3. Press F3 four times to return to the ETA Main Menu.
  4. Repeat this task for other IMSIDs as required.

Where to go from here

Perform any of the following actions:

 

If you want to...

Then...

Specify Autosignon options through the ETA TSS options

Create an ETA Autosignon user exit that takes advantage of ETA features

Make an ETA Autosignon user exit available to an IMS system

See Loading-and-Reloading-Exits for instructions.

Implement your customizations

Refresh the IMSID options or TSS table data in the IMS control region. See Refreshing-IMSID-Options-TSS-Tables-and-CPU-IDs for instructions.

If you have specified that a TSS table or ETA Autosignon exit provide customization information, the TSS table or exit must exist before you perform the refresh.

 

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