Re: ACS "Generated" work station IDs / iSeries Access saving/migration of custom settings

Hi Paul

How are you handling other "My Documents" kinds of things? Or the MS Outlook OST or PST files? I would hope there is something. The custom settings would fall under this category.

Now admittedly, we don't get our laptops re-imaged - we usually get a new laptop with the new image. We usually have someone in PC support to do the transfer, which involves putting personal items on a thumb drive or external drive.

Do your users also have different applications? Would you want to preserve those, to minimize disruption? I understand these are bigger questions than you started with, right?

Good luck on all this, man!

Vern

On 5/29/2018 9:31 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

Justin,

1) Were the "shortcuts" manually created, or possibly included with an image install.

2) Any feedback for how to handle the custom iSeries Access settings?

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
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Subject: RE: ACS "Generated" work station IDs / iSeries Access saving/migration of custom settings

We use Generate Workstation ID. We set "Specify workstation ID" and "Avoid duplicate names on this workstation". Users have a shortcut on their desktop that points to the local workstation file, set to open with the iACS EXE. They double-click and it starts a 5250 session, using the base ID with an "A" suffix. Launch it again, and they get a new session with the base ID and a "B" suffix.




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Subject: ACS "Generated" work station IDs / iSeries Access saving/migration of custom settings

Anyone using ACS with "Generated" work station IDs?
How does this work if one uses desktop shortcuts to launch ACS?
Or are there better alternatives for a user to launch ACS?

Also, we are working on are Win7 to Win10 migration, One of the plans is to push a new Win10 image to the PC. (PC will be wiped in the process.) iSeries Access for Windows will be replaced with ACS simultaneously with the Win7 to Win10 migration.

I'm not sure how I could save any iSeries Access customization that a user may currently have.
Such as:

.ws - emulator profile
.bch - emulator batch file
.kmp - keyboard customization file
.pmp - poppad files
.bar - menu bar files
.dtf - data transfer from IBM i
.dtt - data transfer to IBM i

Has anyone done a similar migration, saving/migrating the custom iSeries Access settings?

Thank You
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