"TSS0211E ACCESSOR-ID MISSING OR INVALID" With TSS CREATE With '*' In ACID

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

Previously, creating ACIDs with an asterisk (*) at the end (example PROFADM*) worked without a problem. 

Now, the following error message occurs:

TSS CREATE(userid*) DEPT(dept) NAME(name) PASSWORD(password)
TSS0211E ACCESSOR-ID MISSING OR INVALID
TSS0301I CREATE FUNCTION FAILED, RETURN CODE = 4

Resolution

The code in Top Secret 15.0 (and above) was changed as follows:

Top Secret documents that allowable characters for an ACID are A-Z, 0-9, and national characters ($,#,@,%,&,=,?). Other characters may cause unpredictable results and are not supported. Top Secret 15.0 added checks during the CREATE of an ACID to verify that unsupported characters are not used.

The asterisk '*' should not have been allowed in prior releases of Top Secret.

Top Secret r15 has fix RO32792 that deals with some of the special characters in an ACID, however, the only characters allowed as a result of this fix are the three mentioned in the fix description: '+', '-' (hyphen), and '_' (underscore).

The '*' is no longer allowed in an acid name.