Re: CLLE - Variable Sized Environmental Variable.

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Shane,

Can you change the script to accept the password as a parameter rather 
than adding it as an environment variable? Having in the environment 
seems like a security hole, even if you remove it afterwards.

The %trim is unnecessary since trailing blanks are removed when the 
value is added. Use WRKENVVAR to look at what's in there after running 
your CLLE program.

The only other thing I can think of besides the CCSID that Stefan 
mentioned, is that maybe the script does not look at the *JOB level 
environment variables and instead looks at the *SYS level.

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On 4/11/2024 12:07 PM, Shane Reeves wrote:
> I'm trying to update a CLLE program that someone else wrote, and I'm stuck with trying to make the change I want.
>
> The program calls a script that does a SFTP process that requires a password.  Different connections require different passwords.  The way the program is currently setup, the password is assigned to an ENVVAR based on the connection needed.
> This works as-is.  However, all of the passwords are hard-coded into the CLLE program currently.
>
> ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(PASSWORD) VALUE('ThePassword') +
>                      REPLACE(*YES)
>
> What I want to do is instead pull the password from a file so that the program doesn't need to be updated every time a new connection is needed.
>
> ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(PASSWORD) VALUE(&FL1_Pass) +
>                      REPLACE(*YES)
>
> However this fails.  Different passwords are different length so the field has to be long enough support them all (and future passwords), so I suspect the issue is that the trailing spaces that get pulled in are causing the connection to fail.  I've tried adding %Trim to get rid of the spaces; however this isn't allowed.
>
> ADDENVVAR  ENVVAR(PASSWORD) VALUE(%Trim(&FL1_Pass)) +
>                      REPLACE(*YES)
>
> I've also tried adding
> ALWVARLEN(*YES)
> To the DCLF statement, but that hasn't helped.
>
> Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
>
> thanks
>
> Shane Reeves