Tom Duerbusch wrote:
There was a package.....
[snip]
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.
We have a "session" command which creates an LDEV and presents the VM
logon screen. I'm not sure if this is the same "sessions" Tom is
referring to, but it's running fine on our z/VM 4.4 system.
Since I connect to VM with some flavour of TN3270E, I usually just open
another session, that way I can have both VM sessions visible at once.
The "session" command allows me to flip back and forth between two IDs
with a PF key, but there's nothing like having both visible at the same
time.
However, I use "session" more and more to log on quickly for a specific
task because the method we have to use to get logged on is getting more
and more inconvenient in the name of security. I won't go off on that
tangent now.. :-)
Don Russell
