When I start to encrypt the password used for an XCOM transfer is there anything to do on the receiving side?

Products

• XCOM Data Transport
• XCOM Data Transport - Windows
• XCOM Data Transport - Linux PC
• XCOM Data Transport - z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Question:

When I start to encrypt the password used for an XCOM transfer is there anything to do on the receiving side?

Answer: 

With XCOM's program XCOMENCR you can encrypt a password before a transfer:

• On the Mainframe you use PGM=XCOMENCR to encrypt the password
• On Windows you use %XCOM_HOME%\xcomencr.exe
• On Unix you use %XCOM_HOME/bin/xcomencr.

On the receiving side there is nothing to do:

• XCOM receives the password which was sent over.
• In case it was encrypted, XCOM decrypts it before checking it for relevance.
• That process is transparent for the user, who has nothing to do.

 

Additional Information:

Even if not using XCOMENCR the password is enciphered before it is sent to the transfer partner and XCOM never sends passwords in a readable form.

XCOMENCR uses an in-house 76-bit proprietary method to encrypt XCOM parameters with a variable and a fixed key.

 

Environment

Release: XCOM..01300-11.6-XCOM Data Transport-for AIX
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