On Thursday, 08/28/2008 at 05:07 EDT, "Gentry, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I?ve googled this and haven?t come up with anything definitive. What is userid > TSAFVM and/or what is it used for?
Eric has the right of it. Is is the Old School way to access APPC/VM (DB2, SFS, homegrown) applications on other VM systems over a CTC link. It has since been replaced by ISFC (CP ACTIVATE ISLINK) but it still useful for 1st-to-2nd-level configurations. Creating a collection, whether via ISFC or TSAF, requires that you do work to ensure that every person has a unique userid among all the systems in the collection. That is, you confirm that user GENTRY is owned only by Stephen Gentry - that no other person has the user ID GENTRY on any system in the collection. What we call a "flat user ID name space". TSAF is used if you use IBM-provided system migration tools for a 2nd level install. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
