Changing security information

You may want your CICS® ONC RPC system to implement security checking on incoming client requests. Such checking usually involves checks on the client user ID and password. One of the ways the client can provide these is by including them in the data structure it sends.

Decode can retrieve this information from the incoming data, and return it in the output fields. The user ID should be returned in the output field decode_userid ; the password should be returned as part of the data pointed to by the decode_returned_data_ptr field. These outputs can either be passed by the client or generated by Decode in whatever way you want. For instance, Decode can derive the CICS user ID and password for the client request by using the decode_client_address field, or the authentication fields decode_aup_… that identify the client.