Unable to access CMEW after converting password to mixed case

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

Site recently converted mainframe user passwords to mixed case characters and unable to login to CMEW: 

04.58.32 STC01365 ---- TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019 ---- 
04.58.32 STC01365 IEF695I START NDVSPAWN WITH JOBNAME NDVSPAWN IS ASSIGNED TO USER NDVSPAWN, GROUP STCGRP 
04.58.32 STC01365 $HASP373 NDVSPAWN STARTED 
04.58.32 STC01365 IEF403I NDVSPAWN - STARTED - TIME=04.58.32 
04.58.32 STC01365 @ BC1PINIT MAIN: ASXBSENV field X(00AFC950) USERID NDVSPAWN, ASXBUSER NDVSPAWN 
04.58.32 STC01365 ICH408I USER(######## ) GROUP(A$PCTL ) NAME(username) 177 
177 LOGON/JOB INITIATION - INVALID PASSWORD 
04.58.32 STC01365 IRR013I VERIFICATION FAILED. INVALID PASSWORD GIVEN. 
04.58.32 STC01365 IEF450I NDVSPAWN NDVSPAWN - ABEND=S222 U0000 REASON=00000000 182

Environment

Release: ENDAE.00200-12.0-Endevor-Software Change Manager
Component:

Resolution

Solution: 

;;default is yes
WebUI.EndevorPasswordUppercased=Yes

By default, CMEW has the above setting in ew.cfg - meaning CMEW password will be upper cased. 

Go to CMEW server and change WebUI.EndevorPasswordUppercased option by: 

stop Tomcat 
run CMEW define datasource and deployment tool 
uncheck WebUI.EndevorPasswordUppercased under general options 
click next all the way 
click apply 
click deploy 

Restart Tomcat 


CMEW now accept the mixed case password.