Paul > But that's apt to overflow the password field on the login screen.
I happened to see this gripe regarding the 3270 panel which contains the field provided for the entry of a password. This will be because the password field allows for only a limited number of characters, 8 is it? I always used to complain about another feature of the VM logon panel - which was copied to the similar NetView panel with similar insensitivity to security. The problem may have been fixed now but you or anyone else can give a try in order to see. My security problem arose because I was in the habit of keying a userid, then tabbing and keying in the password. All the time I would be looking at the keyboard - as poor typists do! The trouble is that I needed to enter different userids at different times - as one does if preparing a class which requires different "users". The userid field has 8 characters - or did - and my usual userid had less that 8 characters but sometimes I needed to enter an userid of the full size, 8 characters. The problem was that the bright sparks who designed the 3270 data stream which builds the logon panel quite correctly make the password field "non- display" - not rocket science to come up with that innovation - but then took it into their tiny heads to give the protected field or fields between the unprotected fields the "autoskip" attribute. Those who can see what that means will now have spilt their coffee - unless they have suffered from the problem. Chris Mason On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:22:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
