Re: More on WDSC Problem

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>   7. Re: More on WDSC Problem (Jon Paris)
>
> date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:44:22 -0400
>
> Just to let you folks know that one of my two problems has been cured thanks
> to IBM's Don Yantzi.  It seems that somebody who shall remain nameless
> installed a new security product on the System i - and attached it to the
> DDM server.  The message that I was getting i.e. blank text from the server
> was occurring because the exit program was simply rejecting my connection
> with no error message.

Jon:

First, glad to know you got a piece working. However, there seems to be an 
implication that IBM believes that a DDM exit program can send messages that 
the server will report to the client. I don't work directly on our exit 
programs, but I haven't seen where that's documented in the interface. AFAIK, 
the only interface action is the 'Accept/Reject' parm indicator.

You reference System i. V5R4, then? I'd like to track this down. *ESCAPE 
messages, for example, have not been good ideas in the past. They are 
documented to result in *INQ messages being sent to the system operator. The 
exit program, and therefore the client request, waits until a response is 
supplied.

But maybe there are enhanced capabilities nowadays.

> Sadly CODE is still screwed up.  It will do everything except verify.
> Absolutely refuses to connect to the host for file descriptions.  Everything
> else works fine.  Anyone got any ideas on that one?

I can't offer much help there unfortunately.

Tom Liotta