No, SYSCTLG and CVOLs had key length 8, to say nothing of PDS directories.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom Brennan [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The Story of Mainframe Passwords 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
