RE: changing your sign-on screen

Rick--

You need another library, positioned in the System portion of the
library list -above- QSYS.

Into this library you place -your- version of the QDSIGNON screen,
copies of IBM commands for which you've modified the default
parameters, print files you tweaked, etc.etc.

To make the system use your signon screen, you need to duplicate the
subsystem descriptions that use your signon screen (ie QINTER) into
your library, then change one of the ??operation?? parameters to
point to YOURLIB/QDSIGNON.

This provides 'insulation' for the IBM operating system; you can
always remove the library from the library list and be back to
'as-shipped' code.  Or, you can use the IBM version by qualifying the
name as QSYS/xxxxx.

One other advantage-- when you upgrade OS/400, all of your changes
are untouched.  You will still need to recreate your version of IBM's
commands (since they sometimes change the parameters).  We keep a
program around that deletes the command from our library, copies
IBM's command into our library from QSYS, then re-applies our
defaults.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com




>From: Rick Rayburn [mailto:the400man@hotmail.com]
>
>Can't remember how I did this a million years ago:
>
>I got the source in QGPL (Qdsignon).
>I made the modifications.
>Do I replace the Qsys display file object? What if I goofed and there is a
>level check? How would I would I ever get back home?
>
>I don't remember if you can trace down the actual program that utilizes
>qdsignon...i couldn't find it in routing codes or class descriptions.
>
>Does anyone remember?
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Rick