Re: User working from home or office

[Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgive me if this is naive or unhelpful to your situation; but maybe it is
easier to just have the user manually key or click in a work/home value?
I'd argue that if they are establishing a session once (or maybe up to 3 or
4 times) in a day, it's really not a productivity issue.

The term "yak shaving" comes to mind. Just my 2 cents!

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. <
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The reason here is that we log time for everything, and they want to know
> if it is work from home time vs. work from the office time without the user
> having to key yet another piece of data.
>
> Mark Murphy
> Atlas Data Systems
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> -----Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
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> From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 04/11/2017 03:24PM
> Subject: RE: User working from home or office
>
>
> Denis,
>
> Several release ago I might have done the same thing.  I have actually
> wrote a RTVIPADDR command just to retrieve the IP Address of the currently
> running 5250 job.
> But times have changed.  The SQL services available on currently supported
> releases of the OS really negate that kind of work.
>
> However, if this person is doing stuff like VPNing into one PC and using
> remote desktop on that PC to run their 5250 sessions then the 5250 session
> will have a local address (from the remote desktop) and not the VPN
> address.
>
> Again, I fail to understand why one would care if the person is using VPN
> vs local unless the data is super high secure and must only be accessed
> from a particular local workstation which has no remote desktop or other
> such capabilities.  This kind of data is often not found outside the
> studios of "24".
>
>
>
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> From:   Denis Robitaille <denis_robitaille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   04/11/2017 03:04 PM
> Subject:        RE: User working from home or office
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>
> Hello,
>
> Here is how I would suggest you might do this. First, a few assumption:
> - Your user are using PC5250 emulation
> - When they are connected through VPN, they are using a different range of
> IP address that is known to you
>
> Here are the steps
> - Using RTVJOBA, you can extract the name of the device used by your user
> - Then, in the device description, you can extract (probably with an API)
> the IP address of that device
> - You check that IP address to see if it is the address of a VPN
> connection
>
> That is how I would tackle this problem
>
> Hope this help
>
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Jan
> Grove Vejlstrup
> Envoyé : 11 avril 2017 08:22
> À : Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Objet : User working from home or office
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to check if a user is working from home or is signed on from one of
> the offices. We have several offices that are connected to the IBM i with
> VPNs.
>
> Is this possible? If yes, how could I do it?
>
> Best regards
>
> Jan
>
>
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