Authenticator (MQCHAR8)

The value of this field is the password or passticket.

If user-identifier authentication is active for the CICS bridge, Authenticator is used with the user identifier in the MQMD identity context to authenticate the sender of the message.

This is a request field. The length of this field is given by MQ_AUTHENTICATOR_LENGTH. The initial value of this field is 8 blanks.

Parent topic: Fields for MQCIH