>-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Kenneth E Tomiak >Sent: 12 July 2007 00:07 >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.
>> >> >>What I may do is to have a button like "Validate host / userid / >>password" so that the user can click that and attempt to connect to the >>host using the given userid and password. If the logon fails, I'll >>report that to the user. If the user doesn't want to valid at that time, >>then it is his problem if the ftp fails later on. That's what I'm trying >>to avoid. >> >>-- > >If that validation fails it still counts as a strike against the number of >invalid >attempts. An easy way to get the userid revoked. You know how impatient >clickers are, they can click quicker than your application can respond. > If the application is used to ftp several datasets with a fat finger-ed password then you could use up all your strikes in one go. Any one submitted a job with several steps each (N)FTP-ing a dataset and forgot the global change of password. BTDTGTS. The validate user/password button could save a lot of problems. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html