Re: More on WDSC Problem

wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

  7. Re: More on WDSC Problem (Jon Paris)

date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:44:22 -0400

Just to let you folks know that one of my two problems has been cured thanks
to IBM's Don Yantzi.  It seems that somebody who shall remain nameless
installed a new security product on the System i - and attached it to the
DDM server.  The message that I was getting i.e. blank text from the server
was occurring because the exit program was simply rejecting my connection
with no error message.

Jon:

First, glad to know you got a piece working. However, there seems to be an 
implication that IBM believes that a DDM exit program can send messages that 
the server will report to the client. I don't work directly on our exit 
programs, but I haven't seen where that's documented in the interface. AFAIK, 
the only interface action is the 'Accept/Reject' parm indicator.

You reference System i. V5R4, then? I'd like to track this down. *ESCAPE 
messages, for example, have not been good ideas in the past. They are 
documented to result in *INQ messages being sent to the system operator. The 
exit program, and therefore the client request, waits until a response is 
supplied.

But maybe there are enhanced capabilities nowadays.

Sadly CODE is still screwed up.  It will do everything except verify.
Absolutely refuses to connect to the host for file descriptions.  Everything
else works fine.  Anyone got any ideas on that one?

I can't offer much help there unfortunately.

Tom Liotta