Re: Capturing FTP Login Errors

[Chamara Withanachchi <chamaraw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Why don't you try with exit points and programs.we do capture all events in
FTP requests/responses.

If you need samples let me know.

Best Regards

Chamara Withanachchi
IBM Certified RPG Specialist

Owner of WWW.RPGIV.INFO
 On Mar 28, 2012 6:33 PM, "Rich Loeber" <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   Hello James,
>
>   You can capture FTP logon failures by using the session log facility
>   within FTP itself.  The activity, when used, is logged to a source member
>   in a source physical file.  What I've done is to run a program after the
>   FTP session completes scanning the member for certain key words that
>   indicate that a failure has happened and then take action once the
> failure
>   has been found.
>
>   I probably have some sample code around here if you'd like it.
>
>   Rich Loeber - @richloeber
>   Kisco Information Systems
>   [1]http://www.kisco.com
>   SDG
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   On 3/27/2012 8:01 PM, James LeLeux wrote:
>
>  Hello all, new to the group, wandered over from the MAPICS board.
>
>
>  We are running V5R1 and have a CLP to capture login errors for SOX
>  purposes, but discovered we weren't capturing FTP login failures.
>
>  We tried various methods and could not get a bad FTP login to register an
>  error in the log.
>
>  Anyone have some suggestion on how to do this?
>
>  What triggered this was some stray routine appears to be disabling our FTP
>  profile and if we can log the time, that might help us trace the culprit.
>  Of course, once we saw FTP wasn't logged, we figured we needed to add it
> to
>  our SOX data (because we don't have enough!).
>  This is only an internal account, the box is not exposed to the internet.
>
>  FYI - here's our syntax:
>  DSPLOG     PERIOD((*AVAIL &CHRDTE) (*AVAIL &CHRDTE)) +
>              OUTPUT(*PRINT) MSGID(CPF2234 CPF1393)
>
>
>  Thanks in advance for any insight!
>
>  BTW - no cracks about the V5R1, we just ordered a new box with V7R1  -
>  finally!    :)
>
>
>  Regards...james
>
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