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List:       racf-l
Subject:    Re: What characters are not valid in a RACF profile name?
From:       Charles Mills <charlesm () MCN ! ORG>
Date:       2023-11-20 17:23:35
Message-ID: 031d01da1bd6$4b52a670$e1f7f350$ () mcn ! org
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@RS, well sure, I'm not trying to do goofy things here for the sake of doing goofy \
things: "Gee, what will happen if I name my FACILITY profile Wesołych Świąt?"

I have a certificate with an Issuer Name. I need to find the corresponding profile. I \
want to write code that will construct the profile name if the certificate's CN \
happens to be Wesołych Świąt. Which if any of those characters does the code have \
to make into cent signs?

BTW, no pass phrases in the picture. So far, at least. <g>

Charles


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From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Radoslaw \
                Skorupka
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2023 1:07 PM
To: RACF-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: What characters are not valid in a RACF profile name?

To complement: when we say "character" in such contexts we usually mean 
SINGLE BYTE character. Usually some "printable" subset of of 00-FF set.
When we talk about profile names, we somehow implicitly assume some 
characters characteristic. For example we exclude control characters 
like NL. We also do not expect any object name with spaces, especially 
at the end of the name. Etc. etc.

Things are more interesting when considering PASS PHRASE character set. 
Space is allowed here (but not at the end). Punctuations also. When I 
teach it I say "any character you can type on your keyboard" (which is 
not 100% accurate, but simple and short).
Well, what about multi-byte characters like UTF or DBCS? Nothing. This 
is NOT byte code which can be another byte of the passphrase.
Actually I did not tested it, but there are two possibilities for i.e. 
Japanese characters:
1. Japanese characters are not allowed.
2. Japanese characters are understood as two bytes in the passphrase.

BTW: I tested polish national characters - it works. Fine print: when 
you change 3270 emulator and keyboard definition...


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