On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:19:20 +0000, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: >We are investigating converting users from passwords to passphrases and I was >told that both JES2 and JES3 will generate a JCL error if the password in JCL >exceeded 8 characters. > >How do shops get around this to use passphrases? > The JCL Ref. AFAICT, mentions "password phrase" only in connection with the JOB statement and the JOBGROUP statement.
Where else were you trying to use a passphrase? Like too many z/OS enhancements, the implementation of password phrases is spotty; half-baked. They're supported in a minuscule minority of contexts; unsupported in the vast majority. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
