Preventing Unsecured ibi WebFOCUS Reporting Server Starts After Upgrades

If the server cannot impersonate users because it lacks platform-specific authorization steps, the server start aborts and error messages are written to the edaprint log.

This feature prevents an unsecured starting of the server after a software upgrade if any of the required post-upgrade reauthorization steps are missed on a UNIX, IBM i, or z/OS USS deployment. This is not applicable to other platforms. The setting may be placed in any normal server start-up shell or profile that a site is using or in the server edaenv.cfg environment configuration file. The messages vary slightly by platform.

The edaprint messages are:

Configured security is 'ON' as set by EDAEXTSEC variable.

Server has no root privilege.

Workspace initialization aborted.

(EDA13171) UNABLE TO START SERVER