Good luck on this. Every few years I look at what is out there to replace TPX. TPX is a great multi-session product and does what we need it to do, but when I get the about $60,000 bill every year I wonder what else is out there.
TPX ties in with RACF pretty well and it dynamically builds the persons "menu" when they signon based on their RACF profiles. Love this capability because we never have to do TPX administration. Just add the user to RACF and it all happens dynamically. Some of the other products do this also. TPX also lets you "view" a person's screen. This is a wonderful feature the help desk uses. When a customer calls in with a problem, the person just enters the RACFID of the person and they can see what they are doing real-time without the caller having to do anything. The main reason we still have TPX is SMF records. TPX does an excellent job of writing out SMF data on all sorts of activity. In particular we can see how many transactions a user did in total and per session they signon to. We use this information a lot and have many reports for managers to view activity. Good luck on your endeavor. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Session Manager replacement Hi listers: IBM has notified that IBM Session Manager product will be phased out by the end of 2018. They suggest we migrate to IBM CL/Supersession. I would like to know of other vendor products that do a similar function. I will be searching but thought of tapping into your experience. Thank you all for any hints. Roberto -- Politics: Poli (many) - tics (blood sucking parasites) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
