Getting OpenDCL Runtime past IT security

[tahtuam]

Hello all!

I have used OpenDCL to create some LISP routines for AutoCAD in my somewhat major organisation and am currently trying to roll it out to my team. The way out systems are set up we cannot install anything ourselves. IT must remote log on and install.

I've trialed it with a few members of my design team and IT were successfully able to install the runtime on their computers (and everything worked perfectly!), however one member of IT staff has now said we cannot continue until OpenDCL runtime is properly vetted by IT security.

They have asked a few questions that I do not know the answers for as below:
1. Does OpenDCL Runtime interact with the operating system of the PC?
2. Does it interact with any internal systems? (I dont expect anyone here to know that.)
3. Does it have any other communication like file server as part of the use case?

As well as the above, they have asked for some sort of technical document on what exactly the runtime does.

I've been given a date of 21st November to roll out the routines so I'm hoping someone here can assist before then? If not I'll have to send it back to security and get them to work it out but who knows how long they'll take.

Thanks all!

[owenwengerd]

I'm afraid there is no formal answer to the questions, and answers from a user forum surely won't satisfy your IT administrators. The only technical document would be the Help documentation that is included with the software. I think your best bet is to explain that it is open source, so all of the code is available for analysis, and even to build the binaries locally. I wish you luck.

[tahtuam]

Thanks Owen!

That's about what I expected and I made that clear to our middle man between us designers and IT security, but they still pushed me to ask the question.

I'm happy to go back to them and say they need to do their own analysis.

Thanks mate, appreciate your time.