PASS

Supplies login credentials required to connect to a DB2 database.

Syntax:

PASS={password | userid.password}
NOPASS

Parameters:

password: Visual COBOL accepts a maximum of 18 characters for the password; however, the length cannot exceed the maximum set by DB2 or the operating system.
userid: Visual COBOL accepts a maximum of 30 characters for the user ID; however, the length cannot exceed the maximum set by DB2 or the operating system.

Properties:

Default:

NOPASS

Comments:

By default, the compiler uses the operating system user credentials to connect to the DB2 database.

When connecting to a database, use PASS only when it is necessary to supply credentials other than the operating system credentials as in the following cases:

You are logged into the operating system as a user that does not have the documented DB2 privileges.
You are logged into the operating system as a user who is not the owner of unqualified database metadata referenced by the program being compiled.
When connecting to a database that resides on a remote server and is catalogued locally.