I overlooked the virtues of single sign-on in TPX. Your shop has to code for it, but it allows a user to sign on to applications with various userids such as TSO and CICS. Caveat: the userid on every application must have the same password; TPX uses different userids according to application but passes along the original TPX password. A corollary of this design is that you can change your password on all applications by changing first the main TPX userid, then logging on to every application one by one. You do not have to enter the new password.
All this being said, I believe that this capability is an extra-charge feature over the base product. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 6:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement I would agree with the below. The remote screen via capability is excellent for help desk. No other software required, they just enter the persons RACF ID and they instantly see what is on the persons screen and as it changes. Again, we don't have to have any software on the persons screen or have them do a single thing. Also, TPX at least, produces wonderful SMF records. So no matter what VTAM application they visit, I can produce reports on the total number of transactions they did, along with signon times for both the session manager and any VTAM applications. Oh, and if you implement it, you can have single signon to your VTAM applications. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 8:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement We depend heavily on TPX here. A session manager provides two key benefits: 1) A session manager 'holds' a session from which the user gets disconnected. Nowadays TSO/E is pretty good at reconnection, but other VTAM applications do not have this capability. There is no substitute for this function for productivity. 2) A session manager can support far more connections than any emulator I've ever seen. As a z/OS sysprog, I can limp along fairly well with just an emulator, but we have altogether several scores of CICS regions across the enterprise. TPX can orchestrate as many concurrent sessions as a user needs. A third benefit that I rarely make use of is the ability to 'move' a workstation from one location to another. I can walk to another desk even in another building and 'take over' my original TPX session. This can be especially useful for help desk/debugging activities. Fourth, Tom Brennan makes a usermod available to Vista that, together with an available usermod to TPX, causes the current session name to appear continuously at the bottom of the screen. The more sessions you have open--especially if they look very similar--the more important this feature becomes. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dana Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2017 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement I think Tubes was acquired by IBM and became IBM Session Manager in the early 2000's. We converted several systems TPX, Cl/SuperSession etc to it at the time as part of the push to convert from ISV products to IBM products. I haven't needed/worked with a session manager for many years with the easy availablity of just opening multiple Vista windows. What sort of functions provided by a session manager do you require? Dana On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 08:28:13 -0500, Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> wrote: >I've used TPX, Teleview, not sure of Teleview is now TPX, both from CA, >Tubes from MACRO4 just to name just a few Carmen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
