VLF-WIN Custom Login Form (solved)

[LANSAGuru]

An ISV has many customers and one of them does not like the fact that the VLF-WIN login form says "Change IBM i password".

Now ordinarily you would just change this, but the source code for this is not shipped.

In VLF-WIN there is a multi-lingual for this, but it is burned in at compile time, so you can't change that.

Additionally, there is possibly a different program which loads all multilingual variables in a single program and then these values are fetched dynamically at build time so that you could change a value, recompile the single program, and then not need to recompile your whole application from the ground up...if memory serves correctly. But this is also not shipped.

So, other than hacking a dll with a hex editor, there is no way to change this text I can see of.

For those customers using VLF-WIN, are there any options to get around this. Support mentioned there might be some ways to do this "custom" by hand cranking a custom VLF-WIN login form, but that it is not technically supported and references internal properties, methods, etc...and might be difficult to upgrade.

Are there any options here?

Thanks,
Paul

[MarkDale]

Have you tried modifying the following line in function UFU0003 ? (the multilingual text enroller) (in process UF_SYSBR)

* MTXTUF_CHGIBMIPSW - Change IBM i Password
Execute Subroutine(ADD_MTXT) With_Parms('UF_CHGIBMIPSW' *MTXTUF_CHGIBMIPSW)

You can modify it to use a different multilingual variable.

UFU0003 is shipped, as are the MTXTUF_* multilingual variables.

You could make a copy of UFU0003 and change the multilingual text enroller property in the framework (Framework properties --> Framework details)

[LANSAGuru]

Mark,

Doh! I knew this existed, but had forgotten.

Thanks,
Paul