Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?

My security concern is the exposed user profile. If it's compromised, it can be used for a variety of attacks (e.g. 5250, FTP, ODBC, SMB). You can protect all those, but I look at it like a juggler. The more balls you try to keep in the air at once, the higher the chance of dropping one.



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From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2017 9:41 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: RPG easier/harder to use than other languages?

On 8 July 2017 at 10:26, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ODBC requires a system user profile, which IMO is a significant distinction.

The ODBC profile we created is severely restricted in what it can
access. The stored procs and that's it. What am I missing? If
there's a security issue, we really need to address it!
--buck