Re: Counting users

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Have you thought about polling your customer base and see how many are
actually using dumb 5250 terminals?  You may retrieve many answers:
1)  Yes, but only 1 or two at our site, they are expendable
2)  No
3)  Yes, but please stop supporting them.  Therefore we can finally
convince management to dump them for PC's.
4)  Yes, and so many it would be a serious financial burden on us to
change.
5)  I am using one here, (amidst dozens of PC's) and I'll whine and stomp
my feet if you stop supporting it.
I have heard of option 3.  One vendor was talking about doing a minimum
supported version of OS, and that is what they got.
Anything other than 4 I wouldn't use as a reason to keep supporting them.
Heck your licensing issue may be a financial incentive for them to upgrade
the dumb terminal to a PC.

Please, let's not start the argument for dumb:
  training
  concentration of work effort vs games
  reliability
  dirty environments
I am trying to help him help his customers

Ron,

Perhaps you should also check out the 'key' api's and see if you can use
that technique.  ADDLICKEY and how to check.  This might be a good start:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/info/apis/sw1.htm

Rob Berendt

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Leif,

<<Did you ever tell us the REASON for wanting this?

I don't think I ever stated it directly, but a couple of people on the list
(Al Mac? and Rob) did state it.

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.

Ron Hawkins

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