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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Dependency Based Build
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 3, 2023

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Provide a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility

At the moment, the CreatePasswordFile utility requires an interactive console which prompts the user for the password.

This idea is about to extend the CreatePasswordFile util and supply a batch mode: 

The user supplies both the password file location and the password via the cli. Additionally, a sample JCL for this process should be provided (as part of the DBB toolkit installation directory) .

Idea priority Medium
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    Senthil Nathan
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    |     Jan 31, 2023

    The new Metadata Store introduced in DBB 2.0 creates and maintains direct connections to DBB build metadata stored in Db2 databases. One important focus during the development of these new database connections was security. In addition to allowing customers total control of the Db2 JDBC connection configuration, a lot of thought was given to how customers would provide Db2 credentials to the DBB APIs in order to create and maintain the Db2 connection. Most if not all Db2 JDBC driver connections require a user ID and password.


    Because DBB is often run in a batch environment, the need to store a clear text password located somewhere on the file system is considered a security vulnerability. The CreatePasswordFile utility is designed to interactively prompt for a clear text password (which is not shown during entry) and creates a 256 bit encrypted password stored in a USS file with restricted access permission settings. Providing a batch mode for the CreatePasswordFile utility would encourage the use of saving clear text Db2 passwords on the z/OS system (to send to the utility) which would defeat its purpose

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