Re: User id format

Current user id's are limited to 10 characters on IBM i. You may have an
opinion on whether or not that should be increased and that's ok but I'm
currently looking for a shorter term solution I need to implement without
having to wait for a new release, etc. So let's just go with the 10
character limitation for now, ok?

Can you think of any reason why they should be only 8 characters? Our
current security policy says: "The id you create should be the first
character of the first name and the first 7 characters of the last name".
There's more details in there to handle stuff like adding Susan Smith and
Sam Smith.
But 8 characters instead of 10? Why? Would this be because ADDDIRE was
limited to 8 characters?

We do not use the entries in WRKDIRE for storing email addresses. We do
not use QDLS. In fact, our newest users aren't even in WRKDIRE.

I know that WRKDIRE allows you to point the 8 to a 10 but, since we do not
use WRKDIRE for anything it's a rather useless piece of trivia.

Any other reasons, other than WRKDIRE, to limit id's down to 8
characters? Some obscure open source reason or some such thing?

Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
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Dept 1600
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Ft. Wayne, IN 46818
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