RE: iSeries and Unix handshaking -- MIDRANGE-L

The concern of the back door was that we would have to store the id /
password somewhere and someone can get to it and use it. All of our other
"interfaces" where we store the id / password can only put / get data. The
id is not able to log in. This opens us up to the ability to use commands
which is new...unless there is something I am missing in what we currently
do. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Charles Wilt
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

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. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
D*B
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 2:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: iSeries and Unix handshaking

<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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