On Tuesday, 09/05/2006 at 10:11 ZW3, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >o Of late, companies are requiring ever more complex passwords, with > > mixed-case, numerics, and special characters. VM line editing > > usurps several special characters; to enter them literally, they > > must be prefixed with '"'. But the password field in VM full > > screen logon is only 8 characters wide, allowing no extra space > > for quoting characters. > > Does VM line editing apply? I thought that was strictly for command > and line-mode input. > > > - Line editing ought to be disabled by default on graphic > >terminals. > > For for full-screen applications, yes: not for line-mode input. By coincidence, the userid and password fields on the VM logo are being changed to stop line editing since there is no ambiguity in what is essentially a full-screen app. But if you press <enter> and go back into line mode, then the default VM line editing characters (those specified or defaulted in SYSTEM CONFIG) are in effect, even before you log on. > > > The feature is useful only on keyboard-printer terminals. > > The feature is useful for line-mode input on a 3270. BTDTGTS. VM allows the sysprog to set the line editing defaults. The most reasonable are: CHARDEL OFF LINEND # ESCAPE " LINEDEL OFF. Character and line delete aren't necessary any more and the default of CHARDEL @ just creates havoc with internet addressing. Users are free to set their own values to override the defaults. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
