Cool! Any good password stories? <g>
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Story of Mainframe Passwords VSAM does not use hardware keys. What I know of that does are PDS directories (KL=8) (not PDSE), VTOCs (KL=44), SYS1.BRODCAST (KL=1), and just heard about PASSWORD. They are (of course) available for user application with BDAM (Google suggests I meant "BDSM"... almost appropriate ;-). I don't know whether ISAM ever used them. They're basically a relic from when DASD was much much slower, and much more expensive. sas On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:04 PM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> 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? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
