Re: Can we have a session without a log-on? -- MIDRANGE-L

booth@martinvt.com wrote:

> I am missing something.  How can the system know what signon screen to
> display until after the user is signed on?
>
> I am trying to use a client/server application with DDM so I won't be
> getting a regular green screen anyway but rather a Windows or Java dialog
> box.   Security is important of course but it just dawned on me how odd it
> is to not be able to choose to expose some data at a =< level 10 security.
>  Tracking UPS shipments would be an example.  UPS certainly understands
> security but finding out the status of a package isn't a really
> bulletproof security scenario nor does it need to be.
>
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> http://www.MartinVT.com
> _______________________
>
> Bob Buchanan <BobbyB@camstar.com>
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 08/29/2000 09:18 PM
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
>
>
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Can we have a session without a log-on?
>
> Create an easy logon like TIMESHEET/TIMESHEET
>
> Lock down what that profile can access on the system CAREFULLY!
>
> Make it go into your timesheet program, and nothing else.
>
> Replace your display screen so that instructions for entering the
> TIMESHEET account are on the signon display.
>
> have fun.
>
> -Bob
>
> > booth@martinvt.com wrote:
> >
> > A separate subsystem?  That sounds interesting.  How would that work?
> > How
> > does the AS/400 know what subsystem to use?
> >
> > The project I am working on is gathering time data via a Windows
> > Client/Server package.  People turning in time sheets are spread all
> > over
> > the campus and the majority are a long ways from a terminal or client
> > access session. In addition to that we have no desire to provide all
> > of
> > them with AS/400 accounts; we just want them submitting their time
> > worked.
> >   Security of who is entering who's time is of no great concern,
> > (heck,
> > until now they've just handwritten their time sheets and left them in
> > a
> > basket on the  counter).
> >
> > But we don't want to leave the AS/400 naked either.
> >
> > _______________________
> > Booth Martin
> > Booth@MartinVT.com
> > http://www.MartinVT.com
> > _______________________
> >
> > Bob Buchanan <BobbyB@camstar.com>
> > Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> > 08/25/2000 06:18 PM
> > Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
> >
> >
> >         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        Re: Can we have a session without a log-on?
> >
> > You can program green-screen to work like the web as far as logons.
> > (How do you think you get a signon screen?)
> > You can also (or at least you used to be able to ) set up a subsystem
> > with a default logon, so that if someone just hit enter at a screen,
> > it
> > would start a session using the default logon.  (This was good for
> > printer control stations & stuff like that).
> >
> > There are lots of features in OS/400 work management that only a few
> > of
> > us still remember how to use.  It just doesn't get used much in normal
> >
> > operations of most shops.
> >
> > -Bob
> >
> > > Michael.Franchino@cussys.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Booth,
> > >
> > > Are you talking about CGI programming or AS/400 green screen
> > program?
> > >
> > > If you are talking about CGI programming, you don't need a sign-on
> > to
> > > access data. You can
> > > can use a standard database to store user profiles. Or, you can use
> > > validation lists to secure
> > > access more finitely.
> > >
> > > I am not a 100% sure, but I think if the CGI program's owner has
> > > access to
> > > your files, then the
> > > program has no problem with it. Just remember you have to add and
> > > remove
> > > libraries from
> > > within your CGI program.
> > >
> > > Now, if you are talking about green screen apps, they must have some
> >
> > > logon
> > > to get access to the
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Michael Franchino
> > > Custom Systems Corporation
> > > (973) 383-7808 X214 (Phone)
> > > (973) 383-6398 (Fax)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > booth@martinvt.com
> > >
> > >                     Sent by:                   To:
> > > midrange-l@midrange.com
> > >
> > >                     owner-midrange-l@mi
> > > cc:
> > >
> > >                     drange.com                 Subject:     Can we
> > > have a session without a
> > > log-on?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >                     08/23/00 08:46
> > > PM
> > >
> > >                     Please respond
> > > to
> > >
> > >
> > > MIDRANGE-L
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there anyway to have users enter data without a logon?  Security
> > > can't
> > > be the real issue because I order stuff over the web and the seller
> > > hasn't
> > > made an "AS/400 Account" for me.  So, how do they do it?
> > >
> > > _______________________
> > > Booth Martin
> > > Booth@MartinVT.com
> > > http://www.MartinVT.com
> > > _______________________
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Martin,

You can define your own sign-on screen in the subsystem desctription. The fields
on that screen should exactly be in the same order as the original IBM screen.

Carel.


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