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Status Planned for future release
Workspace QMF for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 8, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation:

/.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage


Specifically, the credentials are stored in the following variables:

Client/Context/Profile/UserCollections/[ID]/BatchObject/[BATCHID]/REPOSITORY_PASSWORD/Value@String

Client/Context/Profile/UserCollections/[ID]/BatchObject/[BATCHID]/DATABASE_PASSWORD/Value@String

Client/Context/Profile/UserCollections/[ID]/BatchObject/[BATCHID]/DATASOURCE_PASSWORD/Value@String


While access to that path may be restricted to prevent unprivileged users from reaching it, a malicious user with sufficient privileges - or someone who has illegally obtained them - could retrieve the credentials of highly privileged users and impersonate them.


In today’s security landscape, passwords should never be stored in readable text under any circumstances. They must be encrypted.

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  • Admin
    Don Spoerke
    Nov 6, 2025

    The work is in progress to correct this behavior.

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