DSXchange

Hello,

I am new to the dsxchange and I am in need of some help. I am curious to how the DataStage Windows Clients connect to the UNIX server. Is it via ssh or via telnet? Please advise as we need to disable telnet and want to know if this will effect production.

Thanks,
Seth

Welcome Aboard

First of all. Clarify some things for us.
Is your DataStage server on windows or unix?
What do you mean by disabling telnet?
Telnet is a protocol that runs on individual pcs. I dont see how that is going to affect anything other than taking away the connection between DataStage client interface and the server.

Sorry for the duplicate post.

We run DataStage on a UNIX Server and we connect to it thru the Windows Client.

We are running DataStage Enterprise Edition 7.5.

We need to disable telnet for security reasons and have everybody connect to the UNIX server via ssh (thru putty). We want to disable telnet and need to know if this will effect the way the DataStage client connects to the server.

DSguru2B wrote:Welcome Aboard

First of all. Clarify some things for us.
Is your DataStage server on windows or unix?
What do you mean by disabling telnet?
Telnet is a protocol that runs on individual pcs. I dont see how that is going to affect anything other than taking away the connection between DataStage client interface and the server.

DataStage clients connect via a proprietary protocol called DS Objects. The dsprc daemon listens on port number 31538 (or, if you are running a version earlier than 6.0, on 31438). Disabling telnet (port 23) will not affect the operation of DataStage.

If you still want to telnet to the DataStage server, you can use SSH (port 22) even if port 23 is disabled.

Hi,

I am also running similar environment. Is there a way to force password expiration to the DataStage users, If DataStage is not using telnet.

Thanks,
Dinesh

DataStage uses the user's operating system identity. That's where you would enforce password change.