Introduction to APPC password expiration management

This section introduces, and describes the benefits of, APPC password expiration management.

You may find it useful to copy and modify an example program. For your guidance sample programs are now shipped in library CICSTS31.CICS.SDFHSAMP. Their names are:

  1. DFH$$.SNPW — PEM sample program for Windows NT
  2. DFH$$.SNP2 — PEM sample program for OS/2
For examples of PEM requester and CICS® PEM server user data produced by a program, see:
Note: In this topic the word 'sign-on' is used in the sense defined in the APPC architecture, which is different from the meaning used elsewhere in this book.