RE: VB, ODBC and AS/400

Paul,

You are correct, you do get the user and the update string, the problem is,
how do I know this is user john running program VB1 vs. user john running
program excel? The 400 doesn't know where this request came from so I cannot
allow "good" ones and reject "bad" ones.

-Walden

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> From: mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
> [mailto:mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net]On Behalf Of
> PaulMmn
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 9:12 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: VB, ODBC and AS/400
>
>
> >I'm still not sure how you would do that, even with exit programs.  How
can
> >an exit program tell the difference between, say a VB ODBC update and an
> >Excel ODBC update?  From the perspective of a sysadmin, the VB update
might
> >be okay (because it's a homegrown app with all the apporpriate edits in
> >place) and the Excel update would never be okay (No edits, no field
> >integrity, etc.).  But to the exit program, they're both just ODBC
> >updates, no?
> >
> >jte
>
>
>
> If I remember my casual reading about the exit program, you -do- get the
> user ID and the name of the file being updated...
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
>
>
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