Re: BIL500 Job submission problems

While we do use TCP/IP as our connectivity protocol we do not now nor
have we ever allowed the system to name the devices. We have always
forced a naming convention through RUMBA and have carried this practice
over to NetManage.
This was one of the first "work-arounds" that SSA suggested in addition
to suggesting that we change our emulation software. 

Mark Ramsden wrote:
> 
> Wendy and company,
> 
> Have you considered the impact of workstation member
> conflicts/duplications ?
> 
> BPCS often relies on the workstation id being used as
> the name for a physical file member in which it holds
> ‘temporary’ data. This goes back to the old days of
> ‘SNA, twinax attached 5250 devices’, when a user would
> turn up for work each day and log-on to the system
> using the same workstation identifier as he/she always
> used. Nowadays with the advent of TCP/IP and other
> new-fandangled connectivity methods, unless you
> specifically tell the AS/400 what you want to call
> your workstation the user will be logged-on to a
> virtual device which has a name like ‘QPADEVxxxn’.
> ‘QPADEV’s’ are allocated on a first-come, first-served
> basis to the users as they log-on. So one day a user
> could be logged-on to QPADEV0001 and the next day be
> logged-on to QPADEV0006 (at this point you should also
> think about implications with the workstation data
> area!)  Most shops that I have worked at will not
> allow BPCS users to sign-on if they are using a
> dynamic workstation id, this can easily be policed by
> having a user/workstation id table on the server or
> hard coding the workstation into the client
> communications software.  Just some food for thought -
> Mark
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> We have a problem; a user can submit these jobs from a
> device only a limited number of times and then the job
> begins to go haywire. We then move them to a different
> terminal and they can submit the jobs once again for a
> period of time without a hitch and then for some
> reason it begins to go haywire again.
> We have talked to SSA and they suggested it might be
> caused by our emulation package so we switched to
> another package (from RUMBA to NetManage) on the
> offending machines with no change.
> 
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L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst
Datrek Professional Bags, Inc.
2413 Industrial Drive
Springfield, TN. 37172
mailto:leslier@datrek.com
http://www.datrek.com
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