Re: Diabling Telnet Attention key

The only "issue" with doing it this way is that if you type the command and
you haven't actually telnet-ed from another system the connection that it
ends is your PC5250 session and leaves you with a blank screen.  If you
want to sign back in you need to reconnect.  Unlike ENDPASTHR which gives
you an error message if you aren't passed thru, if the user types the
command and gets a blank screen they don't necessarily know what happened.
Then again, maybe they deserve it for not paying more attention to what
they were doing.

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




                                                                                
                              
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I try to encourage our people to use
SIGNOFF ENDCNN(*YES)
to end telnet.  Don't want them to get used to that attention key.  In
fact I've even did the following:
CRTDUPOBJ OBJ(SIGNOFF) FROMLIB(QSYS) OBJTYPE(*CMD) NEWOBJ(ET)
CHGCMDDFT CMD(ET) NEWDFT('ENDCNN(*YES)')

ET = EndTelnet
or
'ET go home!'  :-)

The attention key does come in handy if you've done something to really
lock up the session like LODPTF and filled the disk causing the machine to
IPL.  But when it gets that drastic there's always using another session
on the source machine and ENDJOB *IMMED.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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> When you telnet from one AS/400 to another,  pressing the Attention Key
> brings us the "Send Telnet Control Functions" menu.
>
> Does anyone know how to disable this "feature" so that pressing the
> Attention key does nothing?
>
> Setting the User Profile to ATNPGM(*NONE) does not work to disable this
> function.

Uh, and you expect the user to shut down the Telnet session how, with Attn
disabled?

You could lock the user out of the QGTVCTLF *PNLGRP. If you do this, then
Attn simply crashes the Telnet client (but leaves an orphaned connection
until the user signs off -- messy).

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JHHL


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