VTOCs have the 44 byte DSN as a key. On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:04 PM Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes... Now that you mention it, I do remember the key in PDS > directories, but I never worked with those others directly. Do VSAM > datasets use disk keys? > > On 5/12/2022 3:11 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > 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 > > . > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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