1. Security Administration Guide
  2. Understanding the Long User Feature

Understanding the Long User Feature

As with releases prior to EnterpriseOne Tools 9.2, out of the box, EnterpriseOne user IDs (referred to as "short" user IDs in this chapter) are limited to a maximum of 10 characters. Starting with EnterpriseOne Tools 9.2, administrators have the OPTION to enable the Long User feature to enable users to sign in to EnterpriseOne with a user ID that has a minimum of six characters and a maximum of 254 characters. This feature provides flexibility to support longer formats such as an email address format.

You enable the Long User feature through the User Profile Revisions Long (P0092L) application. In this same application, you set up user profiles with long user IDs by:

  • Adding long user IDs to existing user profiles that contain short user IDs.

  • Add new user profiles that contain both short and long user IDs.

A user profile cannot exist with only a long user ID. It must contain both a long user ID and short user ID. Because both user IDs are stored together in the same record in F98OWSEC table, users can use either their short user ID or long user ID to sign in to EnterpriseOne.

If a user cannot remember his or her short user ID, you can configure the Auto Suggest feature to display both the user's short user ID and associated long user ID when the user begins to type a long user ID in any form where there is a User ID field. See "Setting Up Auto Suggest for the User ID Field" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Runtime Administration Guide for more information.

EnterpriseOne also provides the Enable User Migration (P95LUMIG) application to add new long user IDs to existing user profiles in bulk. See Associating Short User IDs to New Long User IDs in Bulk

P0092L includes the same features and functionality as the standard User Profile Revisions application (P0092). The only difference is that it provides an additional column for associating a long user ID with the user's short ID. Therefore, after adding long user IDs, you can use P0092L to manage user profiles.

Example: Comparison of P0092 and P0092L shows the difference between P0092 and the P0092L.