There is one product that does exactly the same from Macro4 as they wrote and support The IBM session manager.
Crispin Hugo Systems Specialist Macro 4 Limited d: +44 1293 872121 | m: +44 7753951308 | t: +44 1293 872000 | www.macro4.com Registered office: The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4SS Registered in England no: 00927588 Please consider the environment and only print this email if you really need to. This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information that is PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL and/or ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT and is intended only for the individual(s) named herein. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the Macro 4 Postmaster (postmas...@macro4.com) of the error immediately, do not read or use the email and any attachments in any manner, destroy all copies, and delete it from your system if the communication was sent via email. Macro 4 Limited, Tel: +44 1293 872000 Fax: +44 1293 872001. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: 18 August 2017 17:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Session Manager replacement 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 -- This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by Google Message Security and the UNICOM Global security systems. This message is for the named person's use only. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
