On Saturday, 02/28/2004 at 04:17 GMT, Jason Herne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're torn between using the System Managment API's which will (as far > as I understand from what I've seen on the list so far) allow us to > support people who use Dirmaint as well as any other comercial z/VM > directory manager without any special configuration needed?? Or to just > do the directory modification by hand and NOT use SMAPI or a directory > manager. The problem here is, if we decide to use SMAPI, won't we be > cutting out support for people who do not use a directory manager?? > And, if we DONT use SMAPI, do we also lose supporting people who DO use > a directory manager? > > Which would you prefer if you were to use an application of this type?
Jason, I would recommend a multi-element approach: 1. A web-based front end 2. A web cgi that invokes the RPC calls locally. The major question is whether you use a CMS-based web server or a Linux on zSeries web server. There are plusses and minuses either way. The primary benefit of this design are that you can encrypt the sessions on the wire using SSL/TLS. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
