PASSWORD Encryption of passwords

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PASSWORD V21.0A

This chapter describes the password encryption routine PASSWORD.

The PASSWORD routine encrypts passwords in a system without automatic password encryption, thus enabling files to be read that were created in a system with password encryption.

The PASSWORD program is a service routine for exporting files from one system to another (e.g. with the ARCHIVE routine or HSMS). PASSWORD is needed only if files that have been created and protected in a system with password encryption are to be processed in a system without password encryption. PASSWORD encrypts the specified passwords and enters them in the password table of the job.

Figure 15: Password processing in systems with and without password encryption