The browser shortcut key combination Control+J or Ctrl+J (which you sometimes need to press twice in browsers) provides some really useful information. However, in a production environment there is some sensitive information you might want to remove from the display such as:
- Database Name
- Database Type
- Application Server
Optionally, you might also want to remove:
- Tools Release
- Application Release
- Service Pack
The web profile settings allow you to turn Control+J on or off under:
PeopleTools > Web Profile > Web Profile Configuration > Open the relevant web profile, e.g. PROD
On the debugging tab, enable the Show Connection & Sys Info checkbox to enable Control + J.
On changing this the web profile will need to be reloaded using servlet directives or a web server restart.
However, turning off Control+J is an all or nothing setting and turning it off also takes away some of the valuable information it provides. A compromise is to limit the Control+J options through a simple customisation.
In application designer, open the HTML definition, PT_INFOPAGECONNECT. This is the HTML displayed on the Control+J page. The labels for each element are stored in the message catalog. Here's how they map:
| Message Set | Message Number | Message Text |
|---|---|---|
| 146 | 50 | Browser |
| 146 | 51 | Operating System |
| 146 | 52 | Tools Release |
| 146 | 53 | Application Release |
| 146 | 54 | Service Pack |
| 146 | 55 | Page |
| 146 | 56 | Component |
| 146 | 57 | Menu |
| 146 | 58 | User ID |
| 146 | 59 | Database Name |
| 146 | 60 | Database Type |
| 146 | 61 | Application Server |
| 209 | 831 | Component Buffer Size (KB) |
To hide the information that is sensitive, simply use HTML comments <!— —> to comment out the parts you don't want to show, e.g. for the Database Name, Database Type and Application Server (59,60,61) you could change the code in the HTML to this:
<!-- <Reference> <Author> <DD/MM/YYYY>: Hide sensitive information from Control+J --> <!-- <tr> <td class='PSEDITBOXLABEL'>%Message(146,59)</td> <td class='PSTEXT'>%DBName</td> </tr> <tr> <td class='PSEDITBOXLABEL'>%Message(146,60)</td> <td class='PSTEXT'>%DBType</td> </tr> <tr> <td class='PSEDITBOXLABEL'>%Message(146,61)</td> <td class='PSTEXT'>%AppServer</td> </tr> -->
This is how Control + J now looks with above information commented out:
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You would do a similar thing for Tools Release, Application Release and Service Pack (52,53,54) if you did not want to show that information either.
