Re: Remote RDi methods

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Vern,

When working remotely, a userid/pswd is not enough. RDi has to be able 
to get through the firewall. Neither of my customers has their IBM i 
open to the internet.  They used to allow VPN access, but have 
apparently decided that Citrix and Remote Desktop Gateway is more 
secure.  And that would be fine if I had admin rights to the virtual 
machine they give me access to. Apparently that's too much of a security 
risk, and it's too much trouble for them to install RDi.

So I'm still on SEU, which is ok, except when I want to use stuff that 
wasn't added to SEU's syntax checking before IBM stopped enhancing it. 
And not having all the RDI functionality is disappointing.

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*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
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On 10/11/2019 12:49 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> I believe you can purchase your own licensed version of RDi and use it 
> to connect to and work on any system for which you have a valid user 
> and password. Jon Paris and partners have their own copies, I believe.
>
> There might be something in the WDS product area that is needed - it 
> has almost no content, as I recall. You would probably have it just to 
> get compilers.
>
> Now I can easily be off the beam here, have always worked where we had 
> traded up from seats of ADTS to seats of RDi.
>
> Cheers
> Vern
>
> On 10/11/2019 2:35 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> > I don't personally know of any way to run RDi without installing it 
> > first.  You might try asking on the RDi list.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Dow [mailto:petercdow@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:02 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Remote RDi methods
> >
> > In the recent discussion of "Add F8 to your F9", the subject of PDM 
> > came up again.
> >
> > I realize I'm in a very small minority, but I'm pretty much forced to 
> > use SEU.  I'm a contract programmer who works remotely, and up until 
> > about 2014, I usually had VPN access to my customers networks, so it 
> > was possible to use RDI.  Since then, my current 2 customers have 
> > tightened their security, and I no longer have VPN access.
> >
> > With one of them I use Citrix Receiver, which provides a Citrix 
> > desktop; however, all I can do with that is run IBM i Access.
> >
> > With the other, I use a Remote Desktop Gateway, which gets me access 
> > to a Win7 VM, except that I have no admin authority to install 
> > anything on it.
> >
> > What methods does RDi have to accessing an IBM i under these conditions?
> >
> > Which reminds me of a time in the days of yore, and I'm talking 
> > really yore, when tools for file transfer from server to PC were not 
> > so plentiful, someone came up with the idea of using a 5250 session 
> > to transfer data.  As I recall, on the server side there was an RPG 
> > program with a single field display file, said program would 
> > communicate with the client side to put one block of data at a time 
> > in the field and the client side would grab it and store it in a disk 
> > file.  There was no doubt some kind of base64 encoding equivalent, 
> > but it worked -- you could watch the data being transferred a block 
> > at a time flashing on the screen.
> >
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