By selecting the Begin Signon button in the Welcome panel you are presented with the Signon panel. If your web browser supports multiple windows, the Signon panel is displayed in a new window. The Signon panel contains the following fields:
Type in your user ID in this field as supplied by the system administrator.
If JavaScript is active, this field may be pre-filled with the previously used value.
Type in your password, if required. Note your password is not displayed. This field is only displayed if your Web User Interface is secured by an external security manager. If the external security manager supports mixed case passwords, and this is active, an icon is displayed next to the password field indicating that you can enter a password in mixed case.
Type in your new password here when changing your password. Note your password is not displayed. This field is only displayed if your Web User Interface is secured by an external security manager.
Type in your new password again when changing your password. Note your password is not displayed. This field is only displayed if your Web User Interface is secured by an external security manager.
Type in the name of a group as defined in the external security manager that will be used as the name of the Web User Interface user group profile. The user ID must be connected to the group in the ESM otherwise the value is ignored.
This field is displayed only if your Web User Interface is secured by an external security manager and the Web User Interface system parameter SIGNONPANEL(ENHANCED) is specified.
If JavaScript is active, this field may be pre-filled with the previously used value.
Select the check box if you already have an active session running on this server but wish to terminate the existing session and sign on again.
Select this button when you have filled in the appropriate fields to sign on.
Select this button to clear all the fields on the signon panel.
If you select the signon button and you:
If your Web User Interface is not secured by an external security manager, the Password, New Password, and Verify New Password fields are not displayed on the signon panel.
If RACF mixed-case password support
is active, the Web User Interface mixed case icon
is
displayed at the end of the Password, New Password and Verify New Password fields.
If this icon is displayed these fields are passed to RACF as entered.
If this icon is not displayed, these fields are folded to upper case
before being passed to RACF.
You can change your password when you sign onto the Web User Interface. You can only change your password if your Web User Interface is secured using an external security manager, such as RACF®.
If you change your password through the Web User Interface, it is changed for all your other host accesses such as TSO, CICS®, and CICSPlex® SM, that share the same external security manager userid.
To change your password when you sign on: