Re: QLWISVR accessing the IFS?

["Craig Pelkie" <craig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a Java web app running on IWA Server, accessing the IFS.

But I was using the java.io classes to directly access directories and files 
in the IFS, not the Toolbox. *PUBLIC *RWX on the folders/files.

Craig Pelkie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cornett, Adam" <Adam.Cornett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:50 PM
Subject: [WEB400] QLWISVR accessing the IFS?


> Are there any special tricks/gotchas to trying to access contents of an
> IFS folder from a webpage running on the Integrated Web Application
> Server?  I'm testing a webpage that calls a Java program (using it as a
> JavaBean) - that attempts to display the contents of a folder on the
> IFS.  My server is using the default userid - QLWISVR.  And I've
> verified that by having the Java program retrieve the userid.  I seem to
> connect to localhost just fine - as I don't get an exception when
> creating a new AS400 object (I'm using  jt400 - com.ibm.access.AS400).
> But when I try to do IFSFile.list() - I get an exception - "Access to
> request was denied."
>
> My first thought was that I needed to set the authorities on the IFS
> folder to allow QLWISVR to access them.  The folder already allowed
> Read/Write/Execute for *PUBLIC, which I would think would be enough.
> But, I went ahead and explicitly added an entry for QLWISVR to have *RWX
> --- but I still get the exception.
>
> Is there something else I need to setup?  Just trying to determine if my
> initial assumption is correct or not --- should QLWISVR userid be able
> to access the IFS in this manner?
>
> Adam Cornett
>
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