Re: RE: Exit points

[Shahar Mor <shahar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since exit programs are geting the same parameter structures it should be not an issue to use the below pseudo code:

- Get exit point info retrieve program name
- Populate the required parameter structure based on the requested function
- Call the exit program with the populated parms.
- Reject or approve based on the reply we got from the exit program.

The fact that this is easy does not mean it is very usefull :) 

----- Original Message -----
From: Helge Bichel <hbi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010 9:13 am
Subject: RE: Exit points
To: 'HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects' <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Dear Dennis.
> 
> Have a look at http://www.easy400.net/sectcp/start
> 
> Brgds
> Helge
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ftpapi-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Lovelady
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:56 AM
> To: Ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Exit points
> 
> Hi, folks, this is my first post here.
> 
>  
> 
> As a preface, I have searched the archives for "exit program" and for 
> QIBM_QTMF_CLIENT_REQ and for PowerLock with not much result.
>  
> There was a question from someone in 2004 asking why settings in 
> PowerLock have no apparent effect on FTPAPI.  Apparently the poster
> didn't know how PowerLock works (or how it doesn't, in this case).  
> Answer: PowerLock control is installed at the
> QIBM_QTMF_CLIENT_REQ exit point.
>  
> Until I started working with FTPAPI very recently, I had assumed that 
> IBM somehow tied that exit point to the FTP ports. (Naive, now
> I think about
> it.)  Apparently instead, the FTP client program itself makes the 
> necessary hooks.
>  
> I mentioned on another list that our auditors wouldn't allow this 
> program on one of the main systems I work with since it seems to
> lack the kind of control that they want (for example, some users can 
> GET, some can PUT or GET, and some can only do DIR operations).
> (This is all managed by PowerLock controls at this point.)
>  
> So my question is, Have any on this list made an attempt to fit the 
> IBM exit points with FTPAPI? (I have no clue how that would be
> done, nor if it even
> *can* be done in a supported manner.)  I'd love to use this decidedly 
> better solution but am stymied except on my development
> machines.
>  
> I appreciate your responses.
> 
>  
> 
> Dennis E. Lovelady
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> 
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