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Displaying the AppServer Authentication Dialog

To display WebClient’s AppServer authentication dialog, use the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure, which has the following signature:

DEFINE INPUT        PARAMETER prompt                     AS CHARACTER.
DEFINE INPUT        PARAMETER enable-persistent-checkbox AS LOGICAL.
DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_userid           AS CHARACTER.
DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_password         AS CHARACTER. 
DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER appserver_info             AS CHARACTER.
DEFINE INPUT-OUTPUT PARAMETER persistent                 AS LOGICAL.
DEFINE OUTPUT       PARAMETER choseOK                    AS LOGICAL. 

Use the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure if the codebase and business logic reside on the same AppServer or share the same authorization information and

To invoke the _getAppServerAuthentication.p procedure, call it using a partially-qualified pathname that starts with the wcadd directory, as in the following code fragment:

RUN wcadd/_getAppServerAuthentication.p(parameter-list). 


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