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schatelain
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I am trying to build a simple Report Caster form to run jobs using DSTRUNNOW. I have set IBIWF_action, IBIMR_user, IBIMR_pass, and even IBIB_user for the report owner. It logs in without fail, but when I run DSTRUNNOW, I get a Report Caster Message: Authentication failed.

I have followed the documentation to the letter without success. Any ideas??

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CLH
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Hi,

What security method do you have set in the client for authentication and authorization ? We found that we would get that error in certain of our environments and tacked it down to security. The issue appeared in our current release of 7.6.11 So what version do you have ?


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We are using 7.7.03 and authenticating through LDAP.


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Hi,

What we found was that the ID in caster didn't have the correct password in the repository.

That they were out of sync somehow. We fixed this by making the id have a non-expiring password. Setting security to internal internal then putting the password in for the ID and saving. Then turn security back on. Apparently this is some type of feature in the version we have. Fortunately we only have 2 id's allowed to use DSTRUN type features.


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I had issues trying to use DSTRUN with ReportCaster and it failed because of Authentication. We are not using LDAP, but we are using SiteMinder for Authentication.

I was told by IBI support that DSTRUN doesn't understand this type of authentication. Possibly this is related?


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We also had a reason to finally try DSTRUN and it is a huge FAIL for us. With our secutiry model being Authentication = "TRUSTED" and Authorization = "INTERNAL", IBI support confirmed that DSTRUN will not run and it has been 'Stabilized' for quite some time. Meaning, it has not been updated to handle this particular security model and probably won't be.

The good news is the Report Caster API technology does work with this setup quite nicely. I was able to use the sample rbarunnow.htm file that calls the DSTRUNNOW java program to kick off a test job succesfully. I now have a NEW topic for our next North Texas user group meeting to present!

Here is sample code using -HTMLFORM in a fex. All you need to do is supply the RC Job Sched ID and the OWNER of the Sched ID job. Hit the SUBMIT button and POW, your schedule runs!
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>ReportCaster API RunNow Form - DSTRUNNOW TEST</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY LEFTMARGIN=10 TOPMARGIN=10 MARGINWIDTH="10" MARGINHEIGHT="10" bgcolor="">

<H3>Run "ML Inventory Extension with GL Recap" Restauraunt Burst Job Immediately</H3>

<P>

<FORM ACTION="/rcaster/servlet/DSTRUNNOW" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

<input type="hidden" name="IBIB_scheduleid"     value="S177fl6co505">
<input type="hidden" name="IBIB_user"           value="davsmith">

<P>

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END


Note, this works when running as a fex from within an MRE Dashboard View. I do not know if it would work running as a stand alone HTM file outside of WebFocus.

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