Changing RACF passwords
When IMS™ Connect is configured to perform RACF® authentication, you can change RACF password by issuing a password change request to IMS Connect from your Java™ application.
About this task
Procedure
Submit a message that includes the password change request
keyword HWSPWCH in the following format:
HWSPWCH old-password/new-password/new-password
The
HWSPWCH keyword must be at the beginning of the application data section
of the message and be followed by one or more blank spaces, the current
password, a forward slash character, the new password, another forward
slash and then the new password again.
- The keyword HWSPWCH must be all uppercase characters.
- You must include one or more blank spaces between HWSPWCH and the old password.
- The old password must be valid password for the user ID.
- All passwords must follow RACF standards.
If the password is successfully changed, a "HWSC0031I PASSWORD CHANGE SUCCESSFUL" message is returned. If the operation fails, the IMS TM resource adapter throws an exception ICO0001E with a reason code indicating the error.