[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: PDSOE database connection gives false sense of security

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We were recently testing some "ipf" filtering in HP-UX. While messing with TCP port filtering I was checking the impact that the filtering would have on a remote ABL client app. The way I was checking was by editing the port numbers of my database connections in PDSOE . See the database configuration below. It turns out that no matter what you do for the "host" and "port", if you click the "Test Connection" button it will always return "Connection succeeded". See below that I have entered a non-existent hostname and the connection still succeeds. This experimenting was done on 11.7.3. I'm betting that someone commented out the part of the "Test Connection" feature that tests the connection. Can anybody please confirm that no matter how you configure your new database connection, there is no actual test to make sure that it will work? This is very confusing. If there is no connection test available for ABL connectivity then the button should be removed!

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