Defining connection credentials

When you connect to a system, your credentials, that is, your user ID and password or pass phrase, are sent to the system for authentication. When you have defined a credential, you can use it on all systems that share the credential without reentering the details every time. You must have at least one credential before you can connect to a system.

1. On the main menu for the workbench, click Window > Manage Connections. The Host Connections view opens. The following example shows the Host Connections view in the z/OS® Explorer, showing the z/OS connection categories. The available categories depend on the plug-ins installed in the z/OS Explorer.
   
2. Click Add in the Credentials section to add a new credential. The New Credentials window opens.
   
3. Enter your credential details and provide a credential name. The name can be anything you like, and is used only to help you distinguish between different credentials. If you do not type a name, then the default name used is the same as the User ID. Select the Save Password check box to save the password.
   Note: You might have a single user ID, but use different passwords for different systems. In this case, you can define multiple credentials, each one having the same user ID but with a different credential name and password or pass phrase. Alternatively you can choose to define one credential, but not to save the password or pass phrase, in which case you are required to enter them when you connect to a system.
4. Click OK to save the credential or Cancel to cancel the process and close the window without saving the credential.