Object data

<attribute_name>value</attribute_name>
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The names of the object data elements match the attribute names used by CICSPlex® SM. For details, see the XML schema CCVXXRES supplied in sample library SCCVSAMP. For example, to set the PROGRAM attribute of a TRANDEF resource definition to QAAFLTC, you specify <Program>QAAFLTC</Program>. See Examples for an example using the Create API command. For a complete list of attributes for each object, see the resource table descriptions in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®: CICSPlex SM Resource Tables Reference. To set an attribute to its default value, specify an empty element, such as <attribute_name/>, or an element containing whitespace only.

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PASSWORD attributes of FILE resource definitions

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For improved security, rather than returning the actual value of a file password, the CICS® Configuration Manager server returns a string of 8 characters, consisting of the 8 hexadecimal digits of a 4-byte checksum of the file password, with the first digit replaced by an asterisk (for example, *F01E93C).

If the file password has not changed, the CICS Configuration Manager ISPF client sends the value as a string of 8 asterisks (********). If the file password specified by a client begins with an asterisk, the server ignores it, and does not attempt to update that attribute in the resource definition.

The CICS Configuration Manager ISPF client displays the file password on-screen as a string of 8 asterisks.