When Record Password is disabled

When Record Password is disabled, and the end user types an input key sequence into a 3270 or 5250 non-display input field during macro recording, Z and I Emulator for Web discards the input key sequence and creates a Prompt action in the recorded macro script instead of an Input action. The Prompt action contains information about the length of the input key sequence and the row and column location on the screen where the input key sequence is to be directed, but does not contain the input key sequence itself. Consequently, an unauthorized person viewing, editing, or even running the macro script cannot discover the input key sequence.

During macro playback, when Z and I Emulator for Web processes the Prompt action, it pops up a prompting window containing an input field and a message indicating that the end user should type some input. (The default message is Password, but after macro recording is complete you can edit the Prompt action to specify a different message.) When the end user types an input key sequence into the input field of the prompting window and clicks OK, then Z and I Emulator for Web closes the prompting window and types the same input key sequence into the 3270 or 5250 non-display field in the session window at the specified row and column location.

Thus, disabling Record Password provides greater security than enabling it, because when Record Password is disabled the input key sequence is not stored in the macro script, not even in encrypted form. Instead, the end user provides the input key sequence during macro playback, when Z and I Emulator for Web processes the Prompt action.

When Z and I Emulator for Web creates the Prompt action during macro recording, it turns on the Password Response option in the Prompt action. This option causes Z and I Emulator for Web, during macro playback, to use asterisks (*) to display the characters that appear in the input field of the prompting window when the user types the input key sequence (see Password Response).