Security Manager

The EGL Security Manager is software that provides a host name, user ID, and password for use during the automatic preparation of COBOL programs. Typically, only one Security Manager process runs on a given machine.

Consider these variations:
  • If you generate output from the workstation and set the prep build descriptor option to YES, the Security Manager starts automatically, if it is not already running. The Security Manager then retrieves the host, user ID, and password information from the build descriptor and writes the data to the build plan.
  • If you generate output from the EGLCMD or EGLSDK command when the prep build descriptor option is set to YES, the Security Manager is necessary but is not started automatically. To avoid a hang when the command ends, you must ensure that the Security Manager is running before you invoke the first command. In this case, the source of the host name, user ID, and password is a command file or build descriptor or, overriding that content, the command itself.
  • If you prepare output from the EGLPREP command, the Security Manager is necessary but is not started automatically. In this case, you must ensure that the Security Manager is running before you invoke the first EGLPREP command. No build descriptor is involved, and you must load the Security Manager with the required data.
The tasks are as follows:
  1. To start the Security Manager, run the following command:
    java com.ibm.etools.egl.distributedbuild.security.CCUconfig

    A dialog is displayed.

  2. To load data into the Security Manager, as is appropriate only in relation to the EGLPREP command, type data into the Client items tab.