RE: ACS / 5250 transfer to secondary job.

And, with multiple sessions, each job can remain active.
Unlike SYSREQ and Group Jobs where only one session is active and the other(s) get suspended.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power



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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 6:31 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ACS / 5250 transfer to secondary job.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 11:45 AM Gerald Magnuson
<gmagqcy.midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's only been like 35 years of me doing this. even back in the dumb
terminal days, where the device could have 2 twinax addresses, so with the
secondary job you could have 4 sessions going.

In the dumb terminal days, secondary sessions were immensely valuable,
verging on essential.

I got used to them too, so much so that when I eventually got to a job
that used Client Access, I made macros to automatically log in, do
SYSREQ 1, and log in again. That way I would avoid the situation you
describe of having to do an unexpected and unwanted login.

But I am here to tell you that it's time to switch to using multiple
single-session tabs. Yes, it can take a while to rid yourself of the
SYSREQ 1 habit, which is deeply ingrained in muscle memory. But it is
worth it.

Some things to consider:

1. You can have more than just two sessions in a single window.

2. You can switch between (cycle through, if more than 2) sessions
with Ctrl+Tab. Replace your SYSREQ 1 muscle memory with this.

2a. If using more than 2, set up your hotkeys so that Ctrl+1 jumps to
the first session, Ctrl+2 jumps to the second, etc.

3. In the SYSREQ 1 arrangement, one of the sessions has to be
suspended; only one can actually *run* at any given time. And the
suspended one still holds onto locks. Multiple tabbed sessions are
fully independent and can run concurrently.

Good luck!

John Y.
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