One "Sessions" was a freebie "value add" from Amdahl for their customers. Great stuff. Instead of logging on, you issued a DIAL PIE (or whatever server name you used) command and it permitted starting up and hot-switching up to 12 logons from that single screen.
Didn't Arty Ecock had another program named "session" that built an LDEV on an existing logged on CMS userid, and popped you into that session? The old Amdahl Sessions tool was bought by Technologic Software Concepts or Irvine, CA. They renamed it Pie/VM-Sessions, enhanced and supported it for many years before their direction changed. They formally dropped the product and its support on January 1, 2000 (killed by Y2K; with few customers they did not want to spend time re-writing the code to validate the CPU serial number against the 4-digit date). But PC terminal emulation software has pretty much made it obsolete anyway, although with an added cost of a communications connection for every emulator session. With TCPIP, the cost of the connections is pretty insignificant - SNA was a little more expensive. None of those were anything like Linux's sudo. If the requirements were made clearer, perhaps we could address it another way (maybe using SCIF, or a server running a command authorization program). Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Tom Duerbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> 01/02/2007 04:39 PM Please respond to "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: switch user without logoff There was a package..... It was a user contributed program on VM/SP days. You would type the program name with a name and it would create a LDEV device with that session name. You would then get the VM logo, sign on to that CMS (or do a DIAL to some multi-user system, such as VSE), and you could hotkey between that session and the base session. That is as close to the Linux "su" command I've ever seen. Now that it is comming back to me, the package name was "sessions". In the last 10 years, I've always had either a mainframe session manager product (such as tubes), or TN3270 session (which you can have as many as you are willing to support). I don't know if "sessions" was ever upgraded to ESA (and beyond), but a product like what you are looking for, did exist. Free package, that is. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/31/2006 7:00 AM >>> Hi Is it possible to swich user (normally or with logon by method) without logoff under z/VM? I find passthru but it seems not for this kind of problem.. The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited.
