Propagating security information across a network

To allow users to submit jobs without specifying security information such as a user ID, JES propagates the submitter's security information when the information is omitted. For example, you can have users omit their password from their job statements if you do not want to send passwords through the network. Propagation also occurs when you use the /*XMIT card to transmit a job to another node in the network. In this case, SAF passes the information that appears in the first JOB statement to the JOB statement that follows the /*XMIT card.

If SAF is unable to verify the security information on the first JOB statement:

If a TSO user submitted the job, SAF passes the TSO user's security information to the second JOB statement.
If the job entered the system through a local card reader, SAF uses a default user ID for propagation purposes. (For information about the default user ID, see Understanding default user IDs.)

How JES sends security information describes what security information RACF® propagates for NJE jobs.