Another example of how OMVS is not well integrated. The 3270, and TSO support for the 3270, have supported non-display input fields since Old Man Noach cornered the market in gopher wood.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM AOAR O44855 On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:40:07 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >I do not disagree. The decision to revoke is in the customer's hands. Before >this APAR, the option to only say that the combination was invalid did not >exist. So the APAR is 100% a good thing. > (some topic drift) I suspect (novice) that C programmers rely on ioctl(?) fcntl(?) to suppress echoing keystrokes during password entry. Long ago I tried a test. So suppressing echo works as expected in a ssh session to z/OS UNIX. But in a 3270 OMVS session the password is visible during entry regardless. I went to SR. IBM took no action. I believe this is the motivation for IBM's partially prohibiting ssh and sftp from 3270 OMVS sessions. FTP has never endured such a restriction. I've discovered that /bin/script cleanses the 3270-ness of an OMVS session and I can then use ssh and sftp but the password is displayed. The password does not appear in the typescript output file. (Don't tell IBM.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
