IC93689: UNABLE TO LAUNCH GSW 5.3.1 UNLESS GENTRAN USER HAS LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS.

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• This issue occurs when IBM Sterling Gentran:Server for
  Microsoft Windows version 5.3.1 is installed in a Microsoft
  Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 environment.
  
  If the Windows user that is trying to start Gentran
  (Edimgr.exe) does not have administrative rights to the local
  machine they will get a User Account Control (UAC) pop-up
  prompting them for an administrator username and password.
  These credentials must be provided before Windows will allow
  the login procedure for Gentran to continue.
  
  If the Windows user that is trying to start Gentran
  (Edimgr.exe) does have administrative rights to the local
  machine they will still get a User Account Control (UAC) pop-up
  requesting verification to continue the Gentran login process.
  
  This elevation to UAC for administrative rights becomes a
  problem for those companies who do not let their Gentran Client
  users have administrator rights on the machine where the
  Gentran client software is installed. It was believed that all
  Gentran tasks needed to run under administrative level rights
  but this is not always the case. There are some tasks that can
  be done in Gentran that do not need to have administrative
  rights, like monitoring inbound and outbound data and searching
  archives.  To be able to allow those Gentran client users to
  login and work in Gentran (on a Windows 7 or Windows Server
  2008 system) it is necessary to remove the "Run as
  Administrator" setting that is coded into the Gentran:Server
  version 5.3.1 binaries (most of the executable files located in
  the Bin directory).
  

Local fix

• RTC - 376817
  CF/CF
  
  Circumvention:
  Always login to Gentran with a user that has local
  administrative rights or create an separate Windows account for
  Gentran users to use when the UAC window requests an
  administrator username and password.
  

Problem summary

• Customer's client users are not allowed to be Administrators or
  have an admin account to run Gentran under.
  If the Windows user is not an administrator for that machine,
  UAC pops-up a notification box and prompts for an Administrator
  ID and
  password when launching GSW apps. So customer is requesting that
  the "Run as Administrator" requirement be removed from some of
  the
  GSW modules.  Customer thinks they should not need "Run As
  Administrator" authority to run GSW on a client system despite
  the fact
  that Microsoft has changed user configurations and added User
  Account Control settings to newer operating systems.
  

Problem conclusion

• Added new project build modes that use the "AsInvoked" UAC
  setting to the following modules so that non-admin binaries
  could be created without the "Run as Administrator" requirement:
   Edigmr.exe, ArchiveManager.exe, Commpost.exe,
  ProcCtrl.exe, tx32.exe.  These non-Admin binaries can be found
  in the Support\NonAdmin folder of the patch install image.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  STR GENTRAN MS

• Fixed component ID

  5725D0903

Applicable component levels

• R531 PSY

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