On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:15 PM Grant Taylor < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/3/20 11:31 AM, John McKown wrote: > > There is a way. But it can be a bit "complicated". > > Fair enough. > > My experience is to start with a manual process that does achieve the > goal, even if it's annoying and completely manual. Once that proves > itself, then you start streamlining & automating if there is enough demand. > > > I don't know the programming interfaces to get the information. But > > you can get the IP address given an LU name. > > Am I correct in assuming that there is a way to get the user name that's > logged into an LU? > Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what they are logging on to. TSO is rather easy. But what about CICS or IMS/DC or ???? . That I don't know. IIRC, CICS will cut an SMF record when someone logs on. Or maybe the logon process itself will cut a RACF audit record. I'm ay home now and can't double check that. > > <snip> > ACK > > I'm thinking about a way that doesn't involve DNS. > > If it's possible to enumerate all the LUs to identify the LUs from the > interesting IP addresses, and it's possible to get usernames for said > interesting LUs, then you have the users that are using the interesting > IPs. Thus you know who to contact, completely independent of DNS. > > I am assuming that usernames (almost) directly map to the users and thus > provide a list of who needs to have their workstations updated / > migrated / reconfigured to not use unencrypted TN3270. > Yes, that's true. Actually what a reverse lookup would give you is the workstation name (in Windows at least) and not the name of the Windows user using it. And that's only if the WINS/AD server is set up properly. So, it's very company specific. Come to think of it, using SMF records might be easier than doing something "real time". Unless you need an immediate answer. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
