Don, You're right, but what John was talking about was using the windows screen saver lock to lock the keyboard. In this case, Windows won't display anything even though the z/OS console session is still sending messages.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Securing consoles I may be mistaken, but I believe even if the console is not logged on to, messages will still be displayed. Don Imbriale >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Pommier, Rex R. >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Securing consoles > >Right now they're dumb terminals. However, we have a Z9BC on order and >when we migrate to it, the consoles will be on PCs. The problem with >the windows screen saver lock is that the console output isn't seen >anymore. What I'm looking for is the ability to have the console >messages scrolling, but if the operator needs to do something on the >console they have to log on to it. It looks like my only option is to >set up output-only consoles in the unsecured area and make the operator >get up and walk into the secured computer room to actually respond to a >console message. They're going to hate that but I see no other way to >keep the consoles secure and yet allow them to see the messages. > >Rex > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of McKown, John >Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:01 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Securing consoles > > >I don't know a way to automatically log a console off. > >However, what type of console is this? If it is really a PC, can't you >have the "screen saver" lock the PC, requiring a password to unlock? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
