Re: Multiple profiles under EIM

Hi Rob

thanks for the detail - most useful. Sure is plenty to think about making sure
the environment ends up as expected.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 10:12 a.m. 27/01/2006, you wrote:

We have a file/program based menuing system.  When the user signs on they
have that menu.  Each menu option / particular application / has an
"initial program".  It is the responsibility of the initial program to
handle things like library lists.  Nothing submits a job depending on the
job description associated with the user profile.  It uses job
descriptions associated with the particular application.

Common techniques for initial programs include:
- Using RTVJOBA to find out things like what is their current library
list, etc.  Store these into variables.
- CHGJOB, etc to customize it for the application
- Get into the meat of the application.
- CHGJOB back to the stored values
- return to the menu.

We have a couple of canned software packages in use and it's working fine.

No end user setup of initial program is required.  We've added some
obscure menu options to do things like "clone all menu options from one
user to another", stuff like that.  User id is part of the key to the menu
file options.

Sample I have several menu options (in addition to the menu maintenance
options).  I am able to get into BPCS for several divisions (each of which
have their own library list, etc).  I am also able to get into accounting
for several divisions (each of which also have their own library list,
etc).  (The accounting vendor changes their name a lot - this week I think
it is called Unicorn.)


Rob Berendt
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HI Rob

have you got a plan to handle signing on to completely different
applications ?

The only thing I can think of is a front end program that allows the
end user to select and environment and thus set the initial program,
job description etc etc at startup time. For a number of reasons I
think this is ugly.

At 09:00 a.m. 27/01/2006, you wrote:
>We're busting hump to reduce the number of '5250' signon's per user down
>to one before going further with EIM.  We're using a lot of authorization
>list setup to get there.
>
>Rob Berendt