RE: ending jobs normally

Mac,

Agree with your course of action, although it would appear that no one with
the proper authority will enforce a policy of signing off, i.e., you indicated
that the users fall back to their old ways.  The "bosses" are not doing their
job.  I take it that AS/400 security is not a big thing at your site?  Are you
sure you don't have a security guard who is a hacker on the side? <g>

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

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The next problem is that some of those users who neglected to take their
batches to a conclusion before they left for the day, will have a PC in which
screen saver has kicked in & there is a password to get in to their PC so as
to end the ERP session that they left in the middle when they went home, and
typically MIS staff has no knowledge of what that password is.  So we need to
have a collection of home phone numbers of the persons involved, to tell them
that they neglected to end their daily work & what this situation is, so give
them the choice of coming in to finish what they started, tell us the
password over the phone, or we will have a meeting with your boss tomorrow to
discuss the ramifications of this.

I have also been giving the bosses lists of the people who do this all the
time.  That sometimes seems to cut down on the volume for a short time.  The
reality is that no one cares about this until they have to face their data
messed up & rarely is there a mental connection between the garbage data &
the human actions responsible.
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