Previous Topic: Configuring Password Phrase SupportNext Topic: AUTOPASS Configuration Record Is Not Supported


Updating User Exits

If you use any of the five password‑related user exit routines, they must be updated to work correctly with password phrase support. The PASSWORD, PASSCHNG, CHKPASS, USERPASS, and TERMPASS user exits are documented in the chapter "User Exit Reference" in the Reference Guide. All of these exits take passwords as parameters. If a password phrase is being passed to any of these exits, it will be enclosed in single quotes, according to the rules outlined earlier in this chapter. The sample REXX exits include sample code for extracting the parameter values when a password parameter is presented as a quoted string. The quoted password phrase will be passed to assembler versions of these exits in the CMS Extended PLIST structure. You must review your user exit coding for any other minor modifications that may be necessary to support password phrases.