Sorry to ask another, probably stupid question and take up space but – I am at a loss to understand this and assume others have not had this issue.

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Jay Mosley’s instuctions homebuilt MVS3.8j system – working perfectly.???? Master Catalog – ‘sys1.vsam.master.catalog’ has as part of the build process a updatepw set to the value of SYSPROG – I understand the value of doing this.

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Any Batch jobs making a modification, console prompts me for the password – a reply to the message like? R12, SYSPROG works perfectly, the job is successful, obvious the password is working perfectly.???? Have written several JCL jobs that allocate a dataset or whatever that requires an update and they work fine.

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Here’s the issue ----?? In TSO, either with a ALLOC or where I first found this and thought I was stupid, in RPF 4.2 Allocate a dataset – set what I want, enter A – Get a clear screen, prompt for the Catalog password – I enter it, letter by letter carefully – get a response of *** and allocation failed.?? Try it in uppercase, lowercase, won’t work.?? Same at the TSO command prompt using ALLOC – it will not accept the password.

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Thought it was just me being stupid – but I conducted the following test, I wrote/ran a IDCAMS job, ALTER to NULLIFY the password, submitted it as a batch job, console notified me, entered the pw, success RC=0 -?? Now no password

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Tried using RPF 3.2 again -? works like a charm – same with ALLOC.

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Is there some secret to entering the password interactively???? Is something wrong with my build of MVS??? And I just insane??? I would like to put the password back but I also need for things like ind$file to be able to enter it at a TSO prompt and have it accepted.

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I assume most of you all use a Master Catalog password but no hits googling this issue, so that means I am doing something wrong, but what?

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Thanks,

Dave – N8ZFM

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