Re: Weird sign on problems

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If a PC has multiple sessions, that should be coded RWHITE1 RWHITE2 RWHITE3 
etc. but one of the sessions not yet defined, you might have a strange 
session ... QPADEV0001 is default IBM for undefined work station, such as 
tech support places coming in on the ECS line..

Dumb terminals default to DSP some #, which you can alter with WRKCFGSTS 
*DEV DSP* enter then F14, such as to some name assocated with their 
physical location, so they easier to find in reality.

We have a PC used by different people with different passwords different 
times of day ... they have different iterations of CA on same desk top.

Some users have "programmed" equivalent a sign-on string that remembers 
their password, what menu they need to get to, take menu option, key 
something into MAPICS screen etc. and this program string can be somewhat 
flawed.

If the PC in question was earlier used for your scanning operations, then 
switched around for other purposes, some of the scanning config might still 
be there.

Depending on how PCs connect to 400 (e.g. twinax, wireless), they can lose 
their config settings and steal another work station's logical connection.

I suspect spyware may be targetting CA/400 ... I have seen some strange 
stuff, cured by running anti-spyware, then reboot PC.

We also are using an ancient OS4 because our software is licensed to the 
CPU & getting license renewed on replacement box is catastrophic 
expense.  We have seen, via BPCS-L, that companies much smaller than us 
have had to pay in excess of $ million dollars to get software license 
renewed on a box that costs less than $ 50 k.  Thus, we hang onto our old 
AS/400 as long as possible, so as to have to bite the financial bullet 
every 10-15 years instead of every 3-5 years.

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a User that gets the following on her SignOn screen, at least once
> a week.  I guess it has been happening for years, but I have only been
> here for 2 years and just found out about it.  I have never seen, nor
> heard, anything like this.
>
> She can eventually sign on after a few tries.
>
> We are at V4R5 of the OS, and V4.3 of Client Access Express.
>
> It appears that her workstation is trying to sign into the RFINTER
> Subsystem, and not QINTER?  We use RFINTER for our scanning guns.  The
> session ID should be RWHITE1, but it looks like CA is trying to use
> QPADEV0001?
>
> Here is a screen shot of what is on her screen.
>
>
> [?3l[?7h[9;12H[?3l[?7h[1;1H[2J[0m   [1m[0m [1m  Sign On    [0m [2;80H
> System  .:
>  MORA1    [3;80H Subsystem: RFINTER    [4;80H Display .: QPADEV0001 [8;80H
> User
>  . . [4m[0m [4m          [0m [9;80H Password  [0m           [0m [13;1H
> Welcome t
> o MAPICS/XA [24;39H[1m[0m [1m (C) COPYRIGHT IBM CORP. 1980, 1999.    [0m
> [9;12H[
> 9;12H[9;12H[?3l[?7h[1;1H[2J   [1m[0m [1m  Sign On    [0m [2;80H System  .:
> MORA1
>     [3;80H Subsystem: RFINTER    [4;80H Display .: QPADEV0001 [8;80H User
> . . [
> 4m[0m [4m          [0m [9;80H Password  [0m           [0m [13;1H Welcome
> to MAPI
> CS/XA [23;80H[1m[0m [1mCPF1296 - Sign-on information required.
>                        [9;12H[9;12H[0m
>
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this?  Or is this from the aliens that
> landed in North Dakota?  :-)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciatted.
>
>
> Thanx,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nick Radich
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> EPC Molding, Inc.
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