Global user ID

In Release 8.5, users can be defined to be unique within an enterprise as well as globally unique. For deployments where users are globally unique, DISPLAY_USER_ID is unique for the corresponding users. For deployments where users are unique within an enterprise, DISPLAY_USER_ID and ENTERPRISE_CODE are unique for the corresponding users.

How it affects you

All existing users are globally unique. DISPLAY_USER_ID and ENTERPRISE_CODE are populated for the existing users.

Migration strategy

This section describes the automated and manual migration processes for this functionality.

Automated migration processes

The existing users in the YFS_USER table will be updated as follows:

Manual migration processes

None.