Re: Working with WSData

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

There are several ways to setup client access so that users will consistently 
get the same work station address when they sign on, rather than the 
QPDAV0000# protocol which not only results in an inconsistency of session id 
from connection to connection for the inconvenience of anyone who created a 
batch but did not complete its work in the same sign on session, but also 
results in multiple users having the same identical BPCS work station areas 
leading to my keystrokes messing up your screen cursor choices, and some 
other person's keystrokes messing up your data entry at the same time as you 
trying to update fix it, and very difficult for a 3rd party to diagnose what 
is causing you all these problems.

It does not matter if your LAN is Microsoft, or Novell, or IBM, or Linux .... 
every single one of them has ways to accomplish this, but each type of LAN is 
different ... you need to talk with experts in the particular protocol you 
are using, to learn how to accomplish this.

Check out MIDRANGE DOT COM archives since there have been several posts 
spelling out exactly what you have to do to fix your config in the more 
common LAN choices, so that it will work as BPCS intended for it to work.

If you decide instead to do a modification to substitute user-id for ws-id in 
the identification of BPCS work areas, remember that any user-id name over 8 
characters in length will experience the same kind of problem ... you can 
check your DOC SSA LOGIC document for a chart of the naming conventions.

There are a relatively small number of SYS routines to grab the information 
needed to populate work station areas, although I have seen RTV within the 
body of CL ... I do not know if that is modification work outside BPCS 
standards.  You might ask SSA help for a rule of thumb on this one.

>  From:    dbullard@dicksonsgifts.com (David Bullard)
>  
>  Is there a way to override the BPCS workstation data with information from 
a
>  user profile.  We are using IBM client access over our LAN to connect to 
our
>  AS/400.  Each time our users signon they get a different device for their
>  session.  This is a problem because we have different areas of our plant
>  printing to specific printers and our devices are not consistently being
>  assigned to the same machines.
>  
>  Can anyone help?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  David Bullard
>  Dicksons Inc.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies
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