IBM Mainframe Forum

[Akshata]

I am trying to change the password value present every member of a PDS, with the new password value present in a PS file(by comparing Username value).
PDS members:

Member1:


Member2:


Member3:


PS file:



Updated members of the PDS should look like below:

Member1:


Member2:


Member3:



Note:
• There is no specific length defined for any values present in PDS/PS file, only User name value can be used to compare.
• Only password value needs to be changed in each PDS member
• There nearly 500 members to be updated as part of this change.

Please suggest the way to perform this change.

Thanks in advance.

[Pedro]

First, you need to read the password file and separate the two blank delimited tokens so that you have the search-string in one variable and the password in another variable. Because there seems to be at least three userids involved, use a stem variable to keep track of the userid / password values.

Second, process each FTP member, one at a time, as follows:
a. read the member into a stem variable.
b. process each line of the stem variable, looking for each search-string in column 1.
c. when you find a match:
c1. replace the password in FTP stem variable
c2. write out the FTP stem variable to replace the member.

I mentioned stem variables twice... there should be two different stem variables.

[enrico-sorichetti]

a solution with an ISPF edit macro might be simpler

that' s the reason I moved the original topic to the TSO & ISPF section

ad find extracting the line number would be much simpler than

process each line of the stem variable, looking for each search-string in column 1.

[prino]

Completely off-topic, but 500 passwords in plain text?

It's about time your auditors start making sure a few people get pink slips or the Indian equivalents!!!