RE: Changing column names?

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Walden:

I can't dispute what you say since I haven't used that driver and I can think 
of a couple possible techniques for accomplishing it. But it seems it would 
have to add overhead that would be unacceptable to many.

The provider's website claims that standard server connections are used and 
that _no_ software needs to be installed on the server. This means that the 
middleware piece must be either parsing all requests to locate object names and 
resolving all necessary object references for the connecting user (maybe by 
some kind of remote program calls to APIs to retrieve the job description for 
the user, then extracting the library list and then retrieving the object 
library) and modifying the requests on the fly or somehow setting the library 
list for the server jobs that service each request (and of course keeping track 
so it knows when a given request for a given user might be serviced by a 
different server instance which would require setting the library list again; 
possibly also tracking when a *USRPRF or *JOBD is changed so that a different 
library list is needed).

This is an impressive piece of middleware. Now I have to try this out just to 
see what happens.

Tom Liotta

On Tue, 20 November 2001, "Walden H. Leverich" wrote:

> Library lists (at least when using the HitSoftware OLE/DB drvier) are driven
> from the job description of the user profile you use to login. We use
> multiple user profiles with multiple library lists all the time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
>
> First of all there is no concept of a library list in C/S programming.  You
> have to bury that in your connector

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