RE: QUSER on ODBC requests -- MIDRANGE-L

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BAD IDEA.  If you change the password for QUSER and there are applications
with user and password hardcoded then they will stop working.  Clearly you
don't know if this is the case so how are you going to set the password
back?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bdietz@3x.com [SMTP:bdietz@3x.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:16 AM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: QUSER on ODBC requests
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> John one way to check and see if it is really QUSER, Change the password
> for QUSER.  If QUSER is hardcoded into a DSN or some such thing this would
> surley break it.  You should then be able to narrow down what is
> happening.
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>  Bryan Dietz
> 3X Corporation
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> Walden,
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> Yeah, we checked this out.  All of our reports use the "Current
> User" rather than the "Job User" to report on.  This customer is
> having QUSER show up as the "Current User".  :(
>
> jte
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> John Earl
> johnearl@powertechgroup.com
> The Powertech Group          www.powertechgroup.com
> Kent, Washington, USA       +1 253-872-7788
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:50 AM
> Subject: RE: QUSER on ODBC requests
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> > John,
> >
> > Just curious, are you sure they mean "authority of" and not
> that their audit
> > stamps say "QUSER"??? All the "classic" methods of retrieving
> the user id
> > (RTVJOB, RPG PSDS, etc.) will show QUSER not the profile from
> the swap.
> >
> >
> > ------------
> > Walden H Leverich III
> > President
> > Tech Software
> > (516)627-3800 x11
> > WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
> > http://www.TechSoftInc.com
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Earl [mailto:johnearl@powertechgroup.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 14:38
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: QUSER on ODBC requests
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> > We have a customer who is having a problem when they issue
> Client Access
> > ODBC requests.  It seems all of the transactions run under the
> authority of
> > user profile QUSER.
> >
> > This is odd because even though the QZDASOINIT jobs start as
> QUSER, every
> > time one of these prestart jobs receives an *SQLSRV request the
> job is
> > supposed to swap the job's "Current User" to the user id that
> logged on to
> > CAE.   In every other implementation of CAE that I have ever
> seen, when a
> > QZDASOINIT job gets an incoming ODBC request, it will swap the
> current user
> > and proceed with the request.  This site seems to leave the
> current user at
> > "QUSER".
> >
> > I'm guessing it is a configuration problem.   Does anyone know
> of an OS/400,
> > ODBC or CAE configuration option that might cause all ODBC
> request to run
> > under QUSER?   It must have got preset somewhere????
> >
> > The customer is using the Client Access Express, OS/400 V4R5
> and Windows XP.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > jte
> >
> >
> > --
> > John Earl
> johnearl@powertechgroup.com
> > The Powertech Group          www.powertechgroup.com
> > Kent, Washington, USA       +1 253-872-7788
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