IBM Session Manager Implementation

IBM Session Manager Implementation

by Chris Rayns, Pietro De Angelis, William Bulfin, Joe Sewell, Julie Bergh
Released February 2005
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

Session Manager for z/OS V1.2, a VTAM or TCP/IP Session Manager, provides access from a single terminal to multiple z/OS or OS/390 systems. This release offers a range of enhancements, particularly to administration functions, together with functions offering improved usability.

New administration capabilities include self-administration, which allows applications, profiles, and users to be added, deleted, or updated by the end user. Dynamic menus allow users and applications to be administered by way of definitions in an External Security Manager, including RACF. This can be done from a single point of control. It is now possible to hide menu entries from end users. A new capability allows Session Manager to be administered by a batch job, easing the potential administration overhead for mass updates for large sites.

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor, and configure IBM Session Manager. Chapter 1 of this book describes IBM Session Manager. This will help you gain a broad understanding of the product.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Chapter 1: Session Manager overview
    1. What IBM Session Manager is
    2. Administration
      1. Classic configuration
      2. Online and Batch Administration (OLA) (1/2)
      3. Online and Batch Administration (OLA) (2/2)
      4. General points
      5. Self-administration via OLA (1/3)
      6. Self-administration via OLA (2/3)
      7. Self-administration via OLA (3/3)
    3. Dynamic menus
      1. Overview
      2. Configuration steps
    4. Scripts
      1. Overview
      2. Script parameters
    5. Panel definition
      1. Panel sections and sub-definitions syntax (1/2)
      2. Panel sections and sub-definitions syntax (2/2)
      3. Modifying the MENU2 panel definition
      4. MSGPANEL example
    6. Application sessions
      1. Parallel sessions
      2. Non-parallel sessions
      3. TCP/IP sessions
  4. Chapter 2: Installation and customization
    1. Planning for installation
      1. Hardware requirements
      2. Software requirements
      3. Dasd storage requirements
      4. Program Directory statements
      5. Preventive Service Planning
    2. Installing IBM Session Manager
      1. IBM Session Manager storage requirements
      2. First installation versus migration from previous release
      3. Operating system requirements
    3. Installation step
      1. EXIT activation
      2. APF authorization
      3. VTAM definitions
      4. Use of Session Manager Networking feature
      5. TCPIP support
    4. Session Manager startup
    5. OLA definitions
      1. The ISZSSEN job
    6. SIGNON to Session Manager
  5. Chapter 3: Exits
    1. Overview
    2. E01 - Session Manager initialization time
    3. E05 - Configuration statement processing time
    4. E06 - Application status change
    5. E08 - Timer interval exit
    6. E09 - CALLEXIT invocation from a script
    7. E11- Log on to the Session Manager system
    8. E21 - Signon validation
    9. E22 - Signon completion
    10. E25 - Input 3270 datastream exit
    11. E29 - Logoff or disconnect from Session Manager
    12. E31 - Slave session pre-initiation
    13. E33 - Slave session post-initiation
    14. E35 - Output 3270 datastream exit
    15. E39 - Slave session termination
    16. E71 - UPDATE issued, prior to replacement with new version of exit
    17. E79 - Session switch exit
    18. E99 - Session Manager termination
    19. Sample E09 Callexit
    20. The Multiple Exit Driver
      1. How the Multiple Exit Driver works
      2. Setting up the Menu panel to use the DRIVER command
      3. The EXIT Control panel
  6. Chapter 4: Administrator tasks
    1. Spy and Demo functions
      1. Spy facility
      2. The Demonstration and View facility (1/2)
      3. The Demonstration and View facility (2/2)
    2. Sign-on scripts
      1. Script examples
      2. Auto scripts
    3. Migration
      1. Screen layouts
      2. Scripts
      3. Screen scrapers
    4. OLA Security
      1. OLA security settings (1/5)
      2. OLA security settings (2/5)
      3. OLA security settings (3/5)
      4. OLA security settings (4/5)
      5. OLA security settings (5/5)
    5. Batch OLA (1/3)
    6. Batch OLA (2/3)
    7. Batch OLA (3/3)
  7. Chapter 5: End user functions
    1. Hardcopy facility
      1. Components
      2. Using the facility
    2. Pushing screens
      1. Definitions
      2. Using the facility
    3. Demo/View feature
      1. Definitions
      2. Using the facility
    4. Windows feature
      1. Definitions
      2. Using the facility
    5. Cut and Paste feature
      1. Definitions
      2. Using the facility
    6. File Transfer facility
      1. Definitions
      2. Using the facility
  8. Chapter 6: Debugging
    1. Debugging overview
    2. Session Manager preliminary checklist
    3. Working with IBM to solve your problem
      1. When to contact the Support Center
      2. Working with the Support Center
    4. Session Manager problem determination
      1. What to do next
      2. Classifying the problem
    5. Flow diagrams
  9. Chapter 7: Sysplex Environment
    1. Overview
      1. What is a Sysplex
      2. How ISM for z/OS fits in a Sysplex configuration
    2. Configuring Session Manager to use VTAM Generic Resources
      1. What is a VTAM Generic Resource
    3. Configuring Session Manager to use Sysplex Distributor
      1. What is Sysplex Distributor
      2. Our Dynamic DVIPA configuration
    4. Reconnecting to same Session Manger instance after disconnect
    5. Enabling Automatic Restart Manager support
      1. What is Automatic Restart Manager
      2. Implementing Automatic Restart Manager
  10. Chapter 8: Maintenance strategy
    1. Maintenance overview
      1. Determining your maintenance level
      2. Installing and removing maintenance
      3. Applying SUs at startup
      4. The UPDATE Facility
  11. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  12. Index (1/2)
  13. Index (2/2)
  14. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM Session Manager Implementation
  • Author(s): Chris Rayns, Pietro De Angelis, William Bulfin, Joe Sewell, Julie Bergh
  • Release date: February 2005
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None