Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

You have to have a valid user name and password and authority to the
commands you are trying to run.

It's not any more of a back door than any other interface to the system.

Charles

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:09 AM, John R. Smith, Jr. <
smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That data in its final form does not exist on the unix box either.  I'm
> thinking It would have to be a stored procedure to do the calculations and
> then return the data.
>
> At this point, we are leaning towards REXEC but there are a lot of people
> nervous about it (including me) because they have used it and have a fear
> it
> will open the system to renegade commands...you can't always trust your
> employees to not use a back door if they find it. :)
>
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> <John R.>
> ... we don't have the data on the iSeries...
> </ohn R.>
> if the data is stored in DB2, you could access it from the as400 via DB2
> connect (it has to be installed on the UNix Box). If you have a JDBC Driver
> for the database on the Unix Box, you could access the database with normal
> SQL from the as400 using ArdGate (it's open Source and could be installed
> on
> the as400).
>
> D*B
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