Re: iACS session startup questions

Hi, Joe,

May I suggest that EIM / SSO, (single-sign-on) aka. Kerberos, could be a nice solution for your issue of having to "sign-on" to all of those sessions.  That way, you sign-on just once, usually when you sign-on to Windows, (when you first "authenticate"), and you get a Kerberos "ticket" issued, and that is passed to any subsequent applications, such as when you start each session.

EIM/SSO support is "no extra charge" with IBM i, and you can roll it out one user at a time, to ease the burden and not require forcing everyone to change their passwords all at the same time.

Hope that helps?

Mark S. Waterbury
On Thursday, October 24, 2019, 8:53:02 AM EDT, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I've solved problem 1 about getting multiple windows up at once. In
fact, I found a better solution - the positions will remain sticky,
meaning that you can move them and they'll show up again where you left
them.  It requires a specific setting in the .bchx file:

Run1=bchx5250 "PathToEmulatorFiles\DEV1.hod" -s=A -w=1 -v=Last-Exit View
Run2=bchx5250 "PathToEmulatorFiles\DEV2.hod" -s=B -w=2 -v=Last-Exit View
Run3=bchx5250 "PathToEmulatorFiles\PROD1.hod" -s=C -w=3 -v=Last-Exit View
Run4=bchx5250 "PathToEmulatorFiles\PROD2.hod" -s=D -w=4 -v=Last-Exit View

The "PathToEmulatorFiles" is typically your user documents, then
/IBM/emulator, but it can be whatever you need.  The -w=[1,2,3,4] tells
the emulator to start a different window for each session, but the magic
is the -v=Last-Exit View, which makes the window reappear wherever it
was when you last closed it.

Works perfectly!  Now I have to figure out the signon stuff based on
Rob's input.



On 10/23/2019 12:10 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I've been banging my head on this for a while, and I just can't seem
to get all the pieces in place.

My goal is simple: click on an icon in the tray and have all my
sessions come  up, and then disseminate this technique to my
coworkers.  I want several sessions to different IBM i partitions.  In
my personal case, I want two each to two partitions, while a coworker
wants three each to those same two partitions.  We both want each one
to be in its own, untabbed window.

[...]

My goals:

1. Specify the location (and size, as needed) of each window and have
it used at startup.
2. Move the windows as needed and have those new locations stick.
3. Set it so I only enter my password the first time.

Does anyone have insights on this?