CA Gen Tuesday Tip by Gen Customer Support, Aeenv file ID and Password Security options for 03/05/2013
Within the aeenv file, the database information including the userid, password and database name, are ascii. This information can be accessed elsewhere and encrypted by using a Gen user exit.
The aeenv file is read by the database connection exit, dbconnct(), which for Oracle, is located within the file $IEFH/src/tiroconn.pc on the Unix/Linux platforms and C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\Gen r8\Gen\tiroconn.pc on Windows.
In here, the code can be modified so, that instead of simply reading the aeenv file ascii ids and passwords, the option exists to:
Retrieve the credentials from another location from this dbconnct() file. The credientials could be an encrypted version from the dbconnct() file. The id, password and/or database name, would need to be encrypted externally for this to work.
As tiroconn.pc is a user exit, once a modification is made, you would need to "make" the exit after modification using mkdbs, which is located within the $IEFH/make directory on the Unix/Linux IT platforms or mkdbs.bat within
C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\Gen r8\Gen\ on the Windows platform.