I remember that dataset. When I first started, one of my jobs was to run a program someone had written that read every record looking for a dataset match, and then spit out the password. That was for folks who forgot their dataset password of course. The program took maybe 10 minutes to run, and one day I figured out it was probably the only dataset on the system that used the K in CKD, so I reworked the program to use the key and it could then find a particular record in an instant.

On 5/11/2022 3:07 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
Including when password had nothing to do with authentication and system 
access. The PASSWORD  file (yes, single level dataset name) was used to 
implement PASSWORD protection for specific datasets.


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