Re: how client access licenses are counted

My unprofessional WAG is that second, third, etc sessions do not count. 
After all, it is a user license and not a session license.

Now as far as printer sessions go...
If my WAG is correct then a printer session, >on a PC already doing 5250< 
shouldn't count anymore than a 2nd or 3rd display session should.  However 
if you do the common take an obsolete PC and load only iSeries Access and 
have it sit in a corner and only control a printer then you may have an 
issue.

I suppose if resource security is not a concern and you can base the menu 
options off of session name and not session user then you could have 
everyone sign on as FRED and maybe only use one license.  I saw a pure 
MAPICS shop on a S/36 do this years ago.  Nightmares are fading but I 
think MAPICS had an option to "sign into Mapics" and so an OS user of FRED 
could use more than one MAPICS user id.
Disclaimer:  I strongly recommend against this technique as logging, 
auditing, one user signing in wrong 3 times and shutting everyone out, etc 
all start to complicate quickly.  And I suspect I will be brought to task 
for evening mentioning this by the "security by obscurity" folks.


Rob Berendt