# JDBC Server Sending RACF Userid/Password to SQL Gateway

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-on-Windows-UNIX, Adabas-Add-on-Products, SQL-Access, Mainframe-Integration, CONNX\
**Created:** [February 2, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969 "2017-02-02T03:42:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Min\_Chai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Min\_Chai](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Min_Chai)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969/1 "2017-02-02T03:42:18Z")

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Our JDBC Server is running on Windows talking to SQL Gateway running on z/OS. All of our SQL queries required that the JDBC server passed along a RACF Userid/Password to the mainframe for authentication against RACF.

I like to know how the password information is passed to the SQL Gateway. Is the password passed as clear text to the SQL Gateway component? We have encrypt = 0. If not then please explain.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![Larry\_McGhaw](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/larry_mcghaw/32/562_2.png) [@Larry\_McGhaw](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Larry_McGhaw)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969/2 "2017-02-03T05:15:57Z")

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The userid and password are encrypted when transmitted via TCP/IP. the encrypt setting controls whether all data is encrypted instead of just the login credentials.

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**Author:** ![Min\_Chai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Min\_Chai](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Min_Chai)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969/3 "2017-02-03T20:21:57Z")

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Larry,

This is a great relief for us. We appreciate your sensitivity towards protecting such a valuable piece of data.

BTW, CONNX continues to work wonderful for us in production with very little maintenance. We have 5 mission-critical systems relying on this technology with 99% up time. All queries are optimized hence no performance issue.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969/4 "2017-02-03T21:20:05Z")

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Min,

Thank you for sharing that, and I am glad things are working well for you. Typically I only interact with customers that have problems that need resolution, so it is good to see the other side on occasion 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/jdbc-server-sending-racf-userid-password-to-sql-gateway/192969/5 "2021-04-02T15:37:50Z")

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