Re: Data access for non-AS400 devs?

Jim Franz wrote:
> What might be considered a best practices approach as to how a
> SQL Server or VB access to AS400 data would store a user id/profile?
> Some of this might be server applications throughout the day making
> requests.
> The server programmers want a profile to "use" to read data (and I
> expect someday to update). We do have *public excluded from all files
> and authority by auth lists. I want something other than a hardcoded
> user id/pwd inside some text file on a windoze machine.

It's not a problem unless you want it all hands-off.  If there's someone
attending the software, then it'll ask for the user id and password the
first time it connects and after every IPL and shouldn't need to again.

If it's a hands-off application, then you have a problem because you don't
want to store the password anywhere, yet there's noone available to enter
it.

Bill