Oh how I wish WebAuthn, password vault/manager, and MFA became commonplace. Would tie in great with the new HashiCorp Boundary - https://www.boundaryproject.io/
Maybe I'm just mish-mashing things in my head that don't actually fit together in the real world... - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, December 12, 2020 1:19 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > I don't mean to sound like a salesman, there are a few pluses for TPX that I > have not seen mentioned. > > -- Sometimes a person has a unique userid or password on one app. For > example, I have a userid and password on a CICS region that is different from > my TSO credentials. TPX can map your credentials for an oddball app so that > you can log on seamlessly. > > -- TPX has (I think an add-on) feature to assist in changing password. If you > have apps on a dozen different SAF plexes, you can change your password in > TPX itself, then logon one by one to all other TPX-supported apps. TPX > recognizes that you just changed your password in that session, so as long as > the old password on an app is the same as the old TPX password, TPX will > automatically change the target password to match. You can rip through a > dozen apps in a minute. > > -- You can define different PFKeys to take you straight to particular > sessions--limited only by the number of PFKeys. > > I don't know of any emulator--even the best one--that can perform these > functions. > > . > . > 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 > robin...@sce.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > Steve Smith > > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:15 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software > > *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** > > fwiw, I use Vista TN3270, and almost exclusively for TSO. I typically have > 3-10 sessions at a time. Each runs its own window and process. It works quite > well, and each session can be sized (and sounded!... cowbell means this, > marimba means that) to suit. Kudos forever to Tom Brennan. fwiw, I am a > long-time paid customer, and will boldly state he doesn't charge as much as > he should (he might boldly state I can send him more money anytime I please). > > Long ago (if not so far away), I used TPX, but that was mainly back in the > real 327x days, and when VTAM was more than just a vestige. It was then a > killer app. The only advantage I can perceive now is the ability to recover > from network breakages more cleanly. Fortunately, that's not much of a > problem for me, and most systems patiently wait for me to reconnect anyway. > > I do wish I wasn't afflicted and infected with Windows, but that's a > different off-topic, and doesn't really affect 3270 emulation much. > > sas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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
