TSS7250E 157 And TSS7271E Submitting Batch Job With 8 Character ACID – ACID Truncated To 7 Characters

Products

• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP
• Top Secret - VSE

Issue/Introduction

When submitting batch jobs with an 8 character ACID, the ACID gets truncated to 7 characters and the following error messages are received:

    TSS7250E 157 J=jobname A=acid TYPE=ALT-ACID RESOURCE=truncatedacid 
    TSS7271E Job Submit/ACID Authorization Denied. ACID <acid> Not
    Authorized for Your Use 

Top Secret Control Option SUBACID(U,7) is specified.

Environment

Release: TOPSEC00200-15-Top Secret-Security
Component:

Resolution

With Top Secret Control Option SUBACID(U,7) specified, only the first 7 characters of the ACID will be used for the batch signon.

This will cause the:

    TSS7250E 157 J=jobname A=acid TYPE=ALT-ACID RESOURCE=trucatedacid
    TSS7271E Job Submit/ACID Authorization Denied. ACID <acid> Not
    Authorized for Your Use 

because the submitting ACID is usually not permitted to the truncated ACID.

To temporarily get around the problem, PERMIT the acid to the truncated acid.

Example :

    TSS PERMIT(ACID123) ACID(ACID12)

For a permanent solution, change SUBACID(U,7) to SUBACID(U,8). This will allow the entire 8 character ACID to be used.