Description

The COMMAND_FILE_ENCRYPTED option specifies the file containing encrypted values for command line option parameters.

Command files specify an additional source of command line options. Storing options in a file is useful in situations where it is not desirable to specify them on the command line. The application reads the file and processes the options exactly like those specified on the command line. The options must be in their respective command line formats.

UPIMERGE can process encrypted or plain text command files (see the COMMAND_FILE_PLAIN option). Encrypted command files are an excellent place to store sensitive data that you may want to hide from the command line. As an added measure of security, Stonebranch, Inc. recommends that you configure the file system's security to protect any command file that contains sensitive data from unauthorized read access.

Use the Universal Encrypt utility provided with Universal Agent to encrypt a plain text command file. If Universal Encrypt used a key to encrypt the file, use that same key to read the file using the ENCRYPTION_KEY option.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	HP NonStop	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Short Form	-x filename
Command Line, Long Form	-encryptedfile filename
Environment Variable	n/a

Values

filename is the name of the encrypted file that contains the command line options and their values.