Re: JDBC & Passwords

A Windows service has sort of an invisible desktop associated with it.  So 
the dialog would have come up, but in a place where it could never be 
seen.

You have a couple of options. 

1)  When you configure the service you can give it a username and password 
from the domain, and then grant it the right to interact with the desktop. 
 In theory, any dialogs it pops-up will then be visible, although I wonder 
if only the usernames match?  You would have to consult MS docs for 
details.

2)  Change your code to tell the driver there is no GUI.  I think there is 
a setGUI method (might only exist on the AS400 class) or something like 
that you can call, otherwise there should be a JDBC property you can set 
on the jdbcURL you use  The property is "prompt=false".

Mark







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om...
> You do not say which driver, but I will assume it is the Toolbox driver.
> Did you set that property that tells the driver not to use a GUI?  If 
not,
> it could be that it popped up a dialog box telling the user the password
> was going to expire in 5 days.  If this was in a service such as
> WebSphere, you might not even see the dialog anywhere.

I'm using JTOpen 3.1.

The user did not see the signon dialog when the connection hung ... 
although
she DID see it when she was initially installing the program (when it
creates the tables on DB2 database).  She was informed that her password 
was
about to expire and did she want to change it.  She said no.

One thing of note ... this application runs as a Win2000 SERVICE.  Perhaps
the normal GUI functions are suppressed when the application is running as 
a
service?

david


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