Ah yes, more of a hobby machine. Remember that folks like Larry and I are always thinking that systems are production, even development systems are production to us, since developers are our users as well. So our answers will almost always be pointed to that set of needs. So we don't mean to be harsh, just realistic.
I honestly don't know of a way for the system to determine which sign on panel to present to a user, the potential exception of the inbound IP address for the exit program.
Between myself and Larry (along with Paul, and others) we've been fighting that specific topic off and on for over 75 years (collectively) and we not have found a suitable method of achieving the goal you have without the user providing some level of information first. I suspect that if we ever come up with a method to do it, IBM would embrace it and assist, however we have thus far failed to be clever enough to do it.
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Hello Jim,
Am 12.05.2020 um 15:38 schrieb <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
As far as complication of the process goes, this gets an A++ for going way beyond almost anyone's needs.
Please don't judge me without knowing why I want to do this. When I'm finished, I'll happily share if anyone is interested.
A simple creed for system administrators: The simpler it is, the easier to maintain, the greater the uptime.
Believe me, for the scenario I'm thinking, there's no easier way without severely increasing possibilities for errors.
Thinking this all through made me wonder: Why not just build a web based front end.
Because I want it to be 5250.
Remember: I'm doing Midrange as a hobby, with ancient soft- and hardware, not for profit, not for a living. As I stated before… to me, 5250 is *the* greatest strength of the Platform.
I don't bother going the Web way on my AS/400 150, because I could achieve webyness easily with Linux on Intel with a lot more performance, and it would also save me 100W of power for my 150. But that's not my goal.
Thanks for understanding. :-)
forget trying to make IBM i do something that is not entirely natural to it.
Part of my affection to the platform stems from my curiosity what can be done with it aside from the well-known "business" processing. See Booth's remarks about how he mousifies 5250. And also, I've never before seen anyone using Figlet-Output in such an anti-geek environment as IBM Midrange. :-)
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