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  • Subject: RE: Counting users
  • From: "Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:22:29 -0500

Ron,

> We have license agreements to use our software and as part of 
> that we count
> the number of users using the software. This works fine, but 
> our customers
> want to be able to sign onto multiple sessions on the same 
> terminal and not
> be counted more than once.  If they're using "dumb" terminals 
> to accomplish
> this, I don't know how to tell the difference between a user 
> signing onto a
> single terminal 5 times and a user signing onto 5 terminals.

Have you looked at the OS/400 License Management API's ?

A user signing in on X sessions from one PC is easy - IP address will be the
same
A user singing in on a dumb tube and doing a Atl+SysReq is also easy - same
device name, same jobname, different job number.

The issue you have (and you have already stated you know it) is that for
dumb terminals that have multi session support (those that have the Atl+Jump
support), these multi-sessions appear as separate devices - those are going
to be the difficult ones to count as 'one' user.

--phil
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