PASSWORD REQUIRED when maintaining a Datacom Datadictionary occurrence

Products

• Datacom

Issue/Introduction

While trying to maintain a Datacom Datadictionary entity occurrence, an error is returned, when using a batch DDUPDATE:

DDPPWR0001 PASSWORD REQUIRED

or modifying the occurrence online (via DDOL):

DDOL000248A - PASSWORD REQUIRED FOR MAINTENANCE – PWR

How can this password be found?

Environment

Datacom 

15.1

Cause

Occurrences of Datadictionary entities can be protected against unauthorized maintenance adding a password. This password is stored in Datadictionary itself.

Resolution

The password can be found running a Datadictionary Index report, using either DDUPDATE or DDUTILTY program, and specifying the override code as in following input card:

-RPT INDEX,entity-type,entity-occurrence(nnn,ovd)

The above override code (ovd) is the one specified in the OVRIDE parameter of the DDSYSTBL macro, which is assembled during the Datacom installation to create the DDSRTLM module.

PRIV is the default override code value. 

The report has a column PSWD where the password is listed.

Additional Information

Additional details about the DDSYSTBL macro can be found here