Howdy Monks,

I'm looking for a RACF PassTicket generation script in Perl. Does anyone have one to share?

The PassTicket is a one-use-only password generator for accessing the IBM Mainframe using RACF security from distributed environments. There is an article and example REXX script for Windows here: http://www.os390-mvs.freesurf.fr/passtkt.htm.

My problem is that I need to access the Mainframe with FTP from AIX and not have to store a password for my Mainframe user. A while ago, I've used an executable called "racxtk" for AIX, apparently it was a C program compiled by the security people at a customer site I was, but I was not allowed access to the source. Now I'm somewhere else and would need something similar (in perl, preferebly :).

Any light on the subject will be appreciated.

--rodrigo

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