Re: batch validation list update

[Mel Rothman <mel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck is right about it being a "simple" matter of using the APIs.

The IBM eServer Custom Technology Center offers a fee library that makes working
with validation lists much easier to do.

The documentation is available at
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/ctc/details/vldle.htm


Mel Rothman
IBM eServer Custom Technology Center (eCTC), Rochester, Minnesota
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/ctc/



Buck Calabro wrote:
>
> >>Dan wondered:
> >>
> >>So I take it that no one on this list knows how to populate
> >>a validation list that was created using the 'crtvldl' command,
> >>other then 1 at a time thru the http *admin server?
>
> Buck thought that the archives might help.
>
> Dan said:
> >Actually I read a lot in the archives and on the IBM pages.
> >The thread on this list was for updating the user list from
> >a web page when someone signed up. It was not for a batch process.
> >
> >So something as simple as batch updating
> >a list, is made very complex?
>
> Basically, it's a matter of calling the IBM supplied API with the right
> parameters.  Where I was looking at the problem, we're looking to avoid the
> interactive HTTP *admin server and drive this via a program call, so click
> on "add a user" and run some underlying CGI that calls the API that adds the
> user/password.  I thought that this was what you were after - having a
> program add entries to a validation list.  I guess I was confused (and not
> for the first time!)
>
> Anyway, for the archives, the API's are
> QsyAddValidationLstEntry
> QsyVerifyValidationLstEntry
> QsyRemoveValidationLstEntry
>
> Documentation can be found at
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/apis/sec6.htm
>
> I apologise if I misunderstood the request.  I do think these APIs will help
> deal with programmatic handling of validation list entries.
>   --buck
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