Re: Remote RDi methods

We're probably both right, Justin - there isn't anything to install, necessarily, on IBM i, other than to make ports available, mostly. That's the direction I'm coming from.

Now are you thinking - probably right? - that there would be an installation of RDi on the VM? Ah, then I get it.

Regards
Vern

On 10/11/2019 3:33 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:

I think his question is about running RDi without actually doing the install (he's on a locked-down VM desktop), not about licensing. At least that's how I read it.

I think you're correct about licenses. That's assuming a user license (which I think is the more common type), I don't know about floating licenses.



-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:49 PM
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Subject: Re: Remote RDi methods

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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