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Sudhagar
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Hi,
we need to secure the channel between WebFOCUS Reporting server and DB Server(DB2) both running on AIX platform by SSL or tunneling or anyway as you suggest. Could someone throw light on this regarding where to start and how to do it. This requirement is according to Federal Law.

Any Help would be highly appreciated.

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GinnyJakes
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There was a recent discussion about passing the userid and password to a data base connect string here:
http://forums.informationbuild...971057331/m/43610405
We require users who access mainframe DB2 and secure Teradata tables to put a -INCLUDE connect program in each focexec. The connect statement within contains amper variables that are for the userid and password. This is all fronted by a logon page that verifies the entered credentials against LDAP and then sets session variables for the entered credentials that are used in the included connect program.

This allows us to have users of WebFOCUS programs that don't have to have AIX ids. This is important because we run a secured server.

I would suggest that you start by reading the WebFOCUS security manual and also check this forum for other posts of this nature.

Good luck!


Ginny
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Waz
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If you are talking about the connection from WebFOCUS to DB2, WebFOCUS connects to the client that has to be local, and the db client does the connection to the DB, this may be a DB2 question.


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
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