Re: JCL and PassPhrases?

2018-01-12 Thread John Jack
I have the same issue. We're just going to passphrase and I got it to work on TSO, FTP,OMVS and someone else is trying to get it to work with CICS. I can't get it work in batch, ie on the JOB card. I saw something that said that you have to enclose the passphrase in apostrophes which is ugly

Re: JCL and PassPhrases?

2017-09-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
und 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; ha

JCL and PassPhrases?

2017-09-19 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
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? Thanks in advance.