Using the Encrypt string (VME) or Password (AME) check box
If the input key sequence was automatically encrypted during macro
recording, when you look at the Input action in the macro
editor, the Encrypt string (VME), or Password (AME), check box is
selected, and the String field
contains some number of asterisks (such as ******
) representing
the encrypted input key sequence.
In contrast, if the input key sequence was not automatically encrypted during macro recording (perhaps because the session was not a 3270 or 5250 display session, or perhaps because the input field was not a non-display input field) then the check box is cleared and the String field contains the unencrypted input key sequence.
- If the input key sequence that you want is not already present
in the String field, type the input
key sequence into the String field.
- The input key sequence appears normally in the String field (for example,
'myPassWord'
). - If you are using the advanced macro format, remember to enclose
the input key sequence in single quotes (
'myPassWord'
).
- The input key sequence appears normally in the String field (for example,
- Select the check box.
- The macro editor encrypts the input key
sequence and displays it in the String field
using asterisks (
***********************
).
- The macro editor encrypts the input key
sequence and displays it in the String field
using asterisks (
- Clear the String field if it is not already empty.
- Select the check box.
- Type the input key sequence into the String field.
- If you are using the advanced macro format, remember to enclose
the input key sequence in single quotes (
'myPassWord'
). - As you type into the String field,
the macro editor displays the characters using
asterisks (
'myPassword'
is displayed as************
). - When the input focus leaves the String field (that is, when you click some other field) then the macro editor encrypts the input key sequence.
- If you are using the advanced macro format, remember to enclose
the input key sequence in single quotes (
After the input key sequence is encrypted, you might decide that you do not want it to be encrypted or that you want to revise it.
- Clear the check box.
- The macro editor discards the encrypted string and clears the String field.
- If for some reason the String field is not cleared, then delete the characters in it using the backspace key or the delete key.
- Type the unencrypted input key sequence into the String field.
- Clear the String field using the
backspace key or the delete key.
- Delete the entire encrypted input key sequence, so that the field is empty.
- Type the revised input key sequence into the String field.
- If you are using the advanced macro format, remember to enclose
the input key sequence in single quotes (
'myPassWord'
). - As you type into the String field,
the macro editor displays the characters using
asterisks (
'myPassword'
is displayed as************
). - When the input focus leaves the String field (that is, when you click some other field) then the macro editor encrypts the input key sequence.
- If you are using the advanced macro format, remember to enclose
the input key sequence in single quotes (
Do not try to revise an encrypted input key sequence by typing
over or inserting characters into the string of asterisks in the String field (*******
)! If you
do, then you corrupt the encrypted input key sequence with your unencrypted
revisions. Then the macro editor, believing
that you have typed in an unencrypted string, re-encrypts the corrupted
sequence. The result is that during macro playback, when the macro
runtime processes the Input action, the decrypted sequence is not
the input key sequence that you expected. (Also, if you are using
the advanced macro format and you do not enclose the corrupted input
key sequence with single quotes, the macro editor generates
an error message).