I receive error message ACF82900 ACF2, INVALID SYNTAX when I logon to TSO and my password contains US National characters #, @, and $. This occurs if I logon at a European terminal.

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

 

I tried logging on to TSO using the US National characters #, @, and $ in my password. I was visiting our European office and the logon failed with message ACF82900 ACF2, INVALID SYNTAX. The CA-ACF2 Administrator Guide says that these are valid characters. Why am I getting this failure?

This failure relates to the Mainframe Codepage that the terminal emulator is using when connecting to TSO from the terminal.

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ACF2MS

Resolution

The Mainframe codepage character set used by the terminal emulator will decide which Hexadecimal value will be assigned to a character when connecting to a mainframe system. US English is codepage 037 and the dollar sign is x'5B' . United Kingdom codepage is 285 and a dollar sign is x'4A'. The Swedish codepage is 278 and a dollar sign is x'67'

CA-ACF2 only accepts the following values as US National Characters:

National Character	Hexadecimal Character
@ - At symbol	X'7C'
$ - Dollar sign	X'5B
# - Pound sign	X'7B'