password protected dataset

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

How to create password protected dataset??

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:54 pm

password protection is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED/FORBIDDEN nowadays...

it will certainly prevent automated backups

Speak whit the security support people and
follow they guidelines on protecting datasets

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

I am not going to protect any dataset but i just want to know is it done by running some jcl or like some options as 3.2 or 3.4 from the main screen or it could be done a the time of allocation of a dataset... i dont want the process i want only to know that bywat means it is done..

vinay19 · New User Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Bangalore

you can do that through a jcl or even while creating a dataset

expat · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:41 am

Don't even go there.

As a storage guy, when I encounter password protected datasets from the HSM error report, I zap the VTOC to remove password protection, and then blat the dataset. Usually the idiot that password protected his dataset comes and asks if I can restore it. The answer is always "NO - it was password protected so wasn't backed up"

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:21 am

I once had a coworker ask me about password protecting a dataset. I told him resumes and football pools weren't allowed on the mainframe. After that he didn't have any interest in it.

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

Thank u guys for ur kind reply.... i traversed through almost all the options in my mainframe screen but i could not find any option like setting password for a dataset so only asked....

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:17 pm

Hello,