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ThomasH
Calcite | Level 5
Hi all,

I've got another one - maybe you can (as always) help.

Environment is SAS 9.2 / The current setup worked for 9.1.

I have encoded a DB2 password with sas002 (proc pwencode) and I store it in the autoexec file that is used upon job execution.

It looks like this:
%Let DBuser= %str(Username);
%Let DBpassw = %str({sas002}AString);

In the Management Console the DB user setup references &DBuser and &DBpassw but what happens in the generated Table Loader code is, that the &DBuser variable is resolved to the correct username but the password is transformed to

password="{sas002}AnotherString"

I found out that AnotherString is the sas002 encoded name(!) of the variable &DBpassw (exactly as entered in the Management Console), so it does not get resolved like the user variable. How is this to be entered correctly into the Management Console?

Thanks a lot!
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Peter_C
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
have you tried it without that %STR()
?

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