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Re: User working from home or office

I suggested that, it was rejected. So I created a procedure that can be called from a program. It seems to work. We will see what happens when the user isn't on a fast internal network.

Mark Murphy
Atlas Data Systems
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Douglas Dunn <dunndouglas0@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/11/2017 04:46PM
Subject: Re: User working from home or office


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
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----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".



Rob Berendt
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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

Denis Robitaille
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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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