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All,
In my client's shop (a JDE World Software implementation), they have recently
locked down *everything* because of an impending IT audit.
We currently have an 830 on V5R1M0 with development and production running in
the same partition. The long-term plan is to create a development partition
where the programmers *will* have command line capabilities in JDE, but this is
not going to happen soon.
The developer's hands have basically been tied behind their backs, since they
have taken the ability to run iSeries commands while in the JDE environment.
They changed the iSeries profile that the developers use for JDE to be
LMTCPB(*YES), and took away the command line on the JDE menu. We each have
another iSeries profile that *does* have command-entry capability, but it can
only be used to create and compile programs through ACMS (Aldon Change
Management System), and cannot be used to login to JDE for testing.
In the meantime, I still need to be able to debug programs in the JDE
environment using STRDBG and STRISDB, as well as some other commands.
I know that I can write CL programs that prompt these as well as other
commands, and have them owned by and adopt the authority of a user like QPGMR
that is authorized to run commands and put these programs as options on a JDE
menu. I think this could be too limiting for the developers.
What I have in mind is creating a request-message handling program that I can
put as a hidden selection or a menu option on a JDE menu. We could then give
selected users the ability to run this menu option, which would present what
appears to be a command line so they can run allowed iSeries commands.
I would have to add the code to determine which commands are being entered and
whether or not they are allowed through this program, and I would also add the
code to this program to use the SNDJRNE command to send an entry to a journal
that I have created to keep a log of the commands that were executed by this
program.
In the past, I have seen examples of request-message handling programs that
could be used to simulate an AS/400 command line, but I have been searching on
Google and Midrange.com all day and I haven't found anything substantial that I
can use for my purposes.
The problem is that I need to be able to *prompt* the command in the
request-message handling program.
Here is a very simple program that I found and modified, but it won't allow you
to prompt the command. It expects you to have filled out the command parms
properly, then it calls QCMDEXC to execute it. If you enter a command and
press F4, it just executes the command that you supplied without any prompting.
PGM
DCL VAR(&MSGKEY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4)
DCL VAR(&CMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2000)
DCL VAR(&CMDLEN) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(15 5) VALUE(2000)
DCL VAR(&ERRORSW) TYPE(*LGL) /* Std err */
DCL VAR(&MSGID) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) /* Std err */
DCL VAR(&MSGDTA) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(100) /* Std err */
DCL VAR(&MSGF) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) /* Std err */
DCL VAR(&MSGFLIB) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) /* Std err */
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(STDERR1)) /* +
Std err */
RCVMSG PGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*RQS) RMV(*NO) +
KEYVAR(&MSGKEY) MSG(&CMD)
MONMSG MSGID(CPF2415) EXEC(DO)
SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9898) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGDTA('The +
user cancelled!') TOPGMQ(*EXT)
GOTO CMDLBL(STEP99)
ENDDO
CALL PGM(QCMDEXC) PARM(&CMD &CMDLEN)
/* Standard error handling routine */
STDERR1: IF COND(&ERRORSW) THEN(SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9999) +
MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGTYPE(*ESCAPE)) /* Func +
chk */
CHGVAR VAR(&ERRORSW) VALUE('1') /* Set to fail ir +
error occurs */
STDERR2: RCVMSG MSGTYPE(*DIAG) MSGDTA(&MSGDTA) MSGID(&MSGID) +
MSGF(&MSGF) MSGFLIB(&MSGFLIB)
IF COND(&MSGID *EQ ' ') THEN(GOTO +
CMDLBL(STDERR3))
SNDPGMMSG MSGID(&MSGID) MSGF(&MSGFLIB/&MSGF) +
MSGDTA(&MSGDTA) MSGTYPE(*DIAG)
GOTO STDERR2 /* Loop back for addl diagnostics */
STDERR3: RCVMSG MSGTYPE(*EXCP) MSGDTA(&MSGDTA) MSGID(&MSGID) +
MSGF(&MSGF) MSGFLIB(&MSGFLIB)
IF COND(&MSGID *NE ' ') THEN(DO)
SNDPGMMSG MSGID(&MSGID) MSGF(&MSGFLIB/&MSGF) +
MSGDTA(&MSGDTA) MSGTYPE(*ESCAPE)
ENDDO
STEP99: ENDPGM
Any thoughts or examples you wish to share?
Thanks in advance,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935
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