How to secure UniData session using UniObjects for .net

Question

How do you secure a UniData session using UniObjects for .net?

The documentation is severely lacking. The UniObjects for Java documentation has a whole chapter on SSL.

EDIT

The UniObjects .net documentation says this about the UniSession.EncryptionType property:

public int EncryptionType {get; set}

This property gets or sets the default encryption type for the session.

int is the token number for the encryption type, as follows:

0 - UniObjectsTokens.NO_ENCRYPT - No encryption. This is the default value.

1 - UniObjectsTokens.UV_ENCRYPT - Encrypt all data using internal database encryption.

If you set UV_ENCRYPT for a session, all data transferred between client and server is encrypted.

If I set my UniSession object's EncryptionType property to 1 (UniObjectsTokens.UV_ENCRYPT), when I call my UniCommand's Execute method, I get an IBMU2.UODOTNET.UniRPCPacketException that says

"[IBM U2][UODOTNET - UNIRPC][ErrorCode=81004] An argument was requested from the RPC that was of an invalid type"

Answer 1

Look at Chapter 4 in the UniData Security Features [pdf] document for SSL support. It looks like you can modify your UniObjects connection string to specify that you want a secure connection:

In previous versions, the ConnectionString property was used only to specify the server process to be used for the session. It now provides a second set of parameters to specify a secure connection.

Answer 2

A very special person found this for me:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14266821

I will report my findings. More input is welcome.

EDIT

After some research, I found that SSL with UniObjects will only work with Unidata 7.2. My school has 7.1 and we aren't upgrading just yet. But a great developer at another school had a work around. We secured our Uniobjects communication using SSH Port Forwarding. Beautiful. On the computer that runs the uniobjects code, we used srvany.exe and an ssh client to create a windows service. In the ssh client we forward traffic from localhost:uniobjects_port to unidata_server:22.