Re: Remote RDi methods

If I am in this situation (and it happens occasionally) I usually ask the
citrix admin to install the app and provide him with this ISO and patches.
You can also get them to create you a specific Remote Desktop as that seems
to be easier for them in some circumstances.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 9:35 AM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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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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*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
petercdow@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /


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