Re: Exit point QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON vs QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Steve,

I think we are talking about two things here.

1)  Does the logon, and requests get process by the same FTP server job?

2)  Swapping user profiles.

I have no doubt that 2 works fine.

However I am curious as to how 1 would affect exit point programs?  I know 
how it will affect mine.

If you have 10 people doing ftp simultaneously...
WRKSBSJOB QSYSWRK
Job
QTFTP00076
QTFTP00080
QTFTP00080
Note, 3 jobs
Then I started 5 ftp sessions, all with different user id's and now have:
QTFTP00076
QTFTP00076
QTFTP00077
QTFTP00080
QTFTP00080
QTFTP00080
QTFTP00093
QTFTP00192
(Yes you can have multiple jobs with the same name.  I have no idea what 
the digit signifies.)
wrkobjlck rob *usrprf
QTFTP00080   QTCP
wrkobjlck robb13 *usrprf
QTFTP00080   QTCP
wrkobjlck robb23 *usrprf
QTFTP00076   QTCP
wrkobjlck robb26 *usrprf
QTFTP00192   QTCP
wrkobjlck robb29 *usrprf
QTFTP00076   QTCP

So this is looking great.

I suppose if you had hundreds of users using ftp it would spawn a lot of 
sessions.  My concern is that someone would think that this might be a 
performance issue and IBM would start threading this.  But you're saying 
that they wouldn't dare?  That might be true.  After all, look at all they 
would break if they started threading interactive jobs.  And I see a lot 
more interactive jobs then I forsee ftp jobs.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:36:35 -0500
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subject: Re: Exit point QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON vs QIBM_QTMF_SERVER_REQ

< Interesting idea Vern.  Does anyone know if it is a guarantee that the 
logon and the requests are processed by the same QTFTP* job?  And that not 

more than one FTP session is active at a time per QTFTP* job? >

Rob,

According to some of our experts in R&D, at this time that is true.  But 
if
IBM changes the way this works, then it will break every Exit Program
vendor's FTP exit program. 

Both logons and requests are called from the same FTP server job.  In the
LOGON job, there is parameter that the exit can set in order to specify a
real OS user profile for the FTP session.  The FTP server will do a swap
profile to that user and that user will wind up in all the QAUDJRN entries
that are recorded.

Best regards,

Steven W. Martinson, CISSP 
NetIQ Corporation 
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