It stores the password (in encrypted form) needed to connect to the ADSM server
in a file. This way you don't need to type the password in all the time. Good
for automated startup.

Dustin Cavanaugh wrote:

> Sorry for the repeat ... the first effort failed to reach the mailing list.
>
> I have 3.1.1.2 running on my os/390 Server and 3.1.0.8 on my Solaris 2.6
> client.
> PASSWORDACCESS is set to generate, MAILPROG and PASSWORDDIR have been set
> up in dsm.sys and PASSWORD is set in dsm.opt.
>
> What does 'generate' really mean and what does it do for me?