PASSWORD


>>-+----------------------------------------+------------------><
   '-+-PASsword-+--(--+-ddn------------+--)-'   
     '-PSWD-----'     | .-,----------. |        
                      | V            | |        
                      '---dsn--/pswd-+-'

PASSWORD specifies the passwords DFSMSdss is to use for password-protected data sets. (Password checking is bypassed for RACF-protected data sets.) This is required only if:

You do not have the required volume-level RACF® DASDVOL or RACF DATASET access.
The installation authorization exit does not bypass the checks.
You do not want to be prompted for the password for VSAM data sets.

Note: You should specify the passwords for all data sets that do not have RACF protection but do have password protection. During processing, a utility invoked by DFSMSdss may have to prompt the operator for a password. You can control authorization checking by using the installation authorization exit.

For VSAM data sets, passwords are checked at the cluster level only.

Note: The PASSWORD keyword is not valid for a PRINT VTOC command.

ddn: Specifies the name of the DD statement that identifies the sequential data set, or member of a partitioned data set, that contains data set names and their passwords. This data set must contain card-image records in DFSMSdss command syntax format.
dsn/pswd: dsn is a fully qualified data set name. pswd is its password. If no password follows the slash (/), dsn is treated as though it were ddn.

Printing of actual data set passwords specified in your input command stream is suppressed in the SYSPRINT output.