Naturlal security password is visible in VSE JCL

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Is there any way to logon to Natural in batch mode, using VSE JCL, without revealing your Natural Security password?

Were submmitting jobs from a CMS minidisk; we’ve found that if we put the logon ID and password in a VSE SLI book to conceal them, the book has to be in a common VSE library - which creates a worse security risk than we had with the embedded passwords.

Thanks in advance,

Paul G.

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Terminal commands should be available to you within the input stream, as they are in MVS, where I live. Prior to the logon data, insert %*. Presuming you are in delimiter mode (IM=D), the input stream should look something like

%*
natlib,userid,pswd
natcmd
pgmname

The terminal command tells Natural not to display the following input entry - in this case, the entry with the password.