Re: com.ibm.as400.access.AS400SecurityException on V5R1

Thanks Joe for the info.

My V5R1 has JDK 1.1.8, 1.2, 1.3 installed. Now I can run Splf2Pdf with
Djava.version=1.1.8.   I don’t know why 1.1.8 is not the default version. I
need to look into this.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: com.ibm.as400.access.AS400SecurityException on V5R1


>This actually isn't a V5R1 issue.  It has to do instead with how Java is
>installed and specifically with whether the native optimizations are
>available.  I suspect that your V5R1 installation has only JDK1.2 or JDK1.3
>installed, and no copy of JDK1.1.x.  The problem and explanation below come
>from the JTOpen site, which I highly recommend you visit when having
>problems with the toolbox.
>
>http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jt400/index.html
>
>
>Anyway, here's the issue:
>
>------------------------
>Full_Name: thomas johnson
>Version: 2.02
>OS: V4R5
>Submission from: (NULL) (63.224.189.5)
>
>Working with JTOpen 2.02.
>I create a new AS400 instance and set both the user ID and password to
>'*CURRENT',
>and the system as 'localhost'. When running on OS/400, I see the following
>stack
>trace...
>
>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400SecurityException: Password is not set.
>      java/lang/Throwable.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V+4
>(Throwable.java:94)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/AS400SecurityException.<init>(I)V+0
>(AS400SecurityException.java:216)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/AS400.sendSignonRequest()I+0 (AS400.java:2574)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/AS400.signon(Z)I+0 (AS400.java:3004)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/AS400.connectService(I)V+0 (AS400.java:693)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/DataArea.chooseImpl()V+0 (DataArea.java:186)
>      com/ibm/as400/access/CharacterDataArea.read()Ljava/lang/String;+0
>(CharacterDataArea.java:295)
>
>Any action that tries to make a connection seems to produce the same
result.
>I see the same error if I default the user ID and password.
>I do not see the error if a specific user ID and password are assigned.
>Same code was working with prior versions of the Toolbox.
>
>
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>
>Reply 1
>Resend
>
>From: Chris Smith <jt400-bugs@oss.software.ibm.com>
>To: tom.johnson@kingland.com
>Subject: Re: Using *CURRENT for uid/pwd (PR#53)
>Date: Wed Apr 11 14:05:49 2001
>
>Hi Tom,
>
>This is an annoying little thing that everyone has been seeing. We added
>some
>information to our external FAQ. You need to add the native optimizations
to
>your CLASSPATH when running JDK 1.2 or 1.3. (In 1.1.x, they were
>automatically
>picked up by the system class loader.)
>
>On V4R5, the optimizations are in jt400ntv.jar in /QIBM/ProdData/Java400/.
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>-----
>
>As you can see, the issue has to do with which versions of the JDK you have
>installed.  If you have JDK 1.1.x installed, it is picked up as the
default,
>and you don't have the problem, because it automatically uses the native
>optimizations.  Why is this necessary?  Because CPYSPLFPDF assumes that the
>spooled file you're asking to convert resides on the same AS/400 as the
>command itself.  It uses a default constructor for AS/400 which is supposed
>to attach directly using the current system name, user ID and password.
But
>this only works if the native optimizations are in place!  As we see,
>JDK1.1.x picks up these optimizations automatically (and to be honest, when
>I wrote the code, I had no idea these optimizations even existed - they
>really weren't spelled out anywhere in any detail).
>
>Now, however, if JDK1.2 or JDK1.3 is the only version installed, you need
to
>explicitly put the native optimizations in your classpath.  I don't
>particularly agree that this is "an annoying little thing", I think it's
>really a pain in the butt.  Chris says we've got some updated instructions
>in the JTOpen FAQ.  I'd love to fix this, maybe with a runtime switch other
>than the classpath.
>
>Anyway, when I first ran into this problem, I added a machine ID, user ID
>and password.  This allows CPYSPLFPDF to actually convert spooled files
from
>other machines, so I wasn't too upset, but I still think it's a pain.  In
>order to support the various JDK configurations, the current commercial
>version of CPYSPLFPDF allows you to fix this either by identifying the
>location of jt400ntv.jar and having it added to the classpath, or by
>actually specifying a system name, user ID and password to log on with.
I'm
>not sure how you would fix it otherwise, other than installing JDK1.1.x on
>your machine.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com
>> [mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Bruce Jin
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:16 AM
>> To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>> Subject: com.ibm.as400.access.AS400SecurityException on V5R1
>>
>>
>> I try to convert a SPLF to PDF file using Splf2Pdf (that was
>> downloaded from
>> news400) on V5R1 box and I get error:
>>
>> Command CRTPF QTEMP/SPOOL RCDLEN(202) did not run!
>>   Exception: com.ibm.as400.access.AS400SecurityException: Password is not
>> set
>>
>> I logged in with several user profiles including QSECOFR and got the same
>> error.
>> This Splf2Pdf class runs OK on other V4R3, V4R4, V4R5 boxes. Is there a
>> change in V5R1/toolbox that causes the class to fail?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
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