Trusted JDBC Connections to IDS

Hi Forum, I understand that it is possible to configure IDS to trust DB connections from particular hosts, so that a password is not required. In the past I have done this with 4GL and dbaccess client connections to remote linux servers, by specifying the client host names in the '/etc/hosts.equiv' file on the server. My question is, is it possible to achieve a similar result, but with a JDBC client connection? Has anyone done this? It would be nice to at least have the server trust local connections (from the same host) without requiring a password. Many thanks, Rob