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Changing Passwords

If you need to change many CA Ideal user passwords, the easiest way in batch is to use a 1014 transaction in DDUPDATE for each user. You do not need to issue an ALTER SIGNON PASSWORD command to change the CA Ideal password. When you change your password in DDOL, you are also changing it for CA Ideal conversely.

In this case, using DDUPDATE is more efficient than using CA Ideal batch. One execution of DDUPDATE with one 1014 transaction is required for each user, unlike CA Ideal batch, which requires that you set up one batch job or one batch step for each user that includes the SIGNON and ALTER SIGNON password transactions.

Also, remember that you need a -UPD PERSON transaction header for each user.