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User Words

User words are provided to communicate to the POSTRULE exit information about users that cannot be deduced from the name and/or security group of the user.

For example, a particular value in a user word may indicate a privileged user, who should be allowed to log on even when the system load is heavy. Or, a particular value in the user word may indicate that the user should receive a message from the exit whenever a LINK to the user’s minidisk is made.

Multiple meanings can be conveyed by both system and user words. Analysis of these words is left entirely to the POSTRULE exit, so you can create whatever conventions are useful for your environment and your desired use of the POSTRULE exit.

There are three user words:

• The user word labeled PRXRUW is the user word of the requesting user ID.
• The user word labeled PRXTUW is the user word of the target user ID.
• The user word labeled PRXSUW is the user word of the user for whom the requester is acting as a surrogate.

Each user word is a one‑ to eight‑byte uppercase EBCDIC token that cannot contain any embedded blanks. The default value is an asterisk with seven trailing blanks. Set the user word for a particular user by including a special comment record in the user’s directory entry. The special comment record is in the form:

*US= token

Use the EDIT command or the REPENTRY command to place *US= statements in directory entries.