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The default for 5250 sessions is Save on Exit... Always. Per session in the session Edit... Preferences... Exit...
Therefore, when I close a session, it forces the refresh of the Session Manager list automatically.
This 'feature' makes it terribly difficult to work with.
I am requesting this process be reconsidered/redesigned somehow to be more user friendly.
Let me chose globally to save on exit(forcing a list refresh).
Only refresh on Adds or deletes of sessions from the list. But not on saves of existing ones. This would be the more ideal default.
Let's say I have to go into each lpar to make a change on every system, 1 by 1. I have 174 lpars. Repeatedly, I have to remember the last system that I just had selected and then closed. The list refreshes, I scrolling back down the list to open the next system. If I get it right that is.
Terribly cumbersome.
Short term, it seems I need to change the setting per session in the session Edit... Preferences... Exit..Save on Exit... Always setting to Never. For every session.
Primarily because I dont want the session list refreshed every time!
RFE suggestions:
I would like a Session Mgr preference setting to ignore refresh unless new or removal of session action was done. Saving an existing one wouldn't require a refresh basically. ( I fully get why the refresh is needed in Add or Delete cases!)
But also, make the save on exit a Session Mgr preference setting, that is the default and allow the session level setting to override the master Session Mgr setting.
Right now, I have to go update every session, 1 at a time to set them all to Never. Not really ideal in the long term.
But, it is more important to me to leave the Session List in the order I choose and leave the last session I selected there and highlighted(to remind me of the last one I opened), than the Save on Exit option.
Because once I have them set, I don't mess with them and re-save them typically.
On the other hand, I am always going into sessions, then closing them. The list refreshes every time.
That is NOT the desired default or behavior that is user friendly.
Idea priority | High |
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This support is now available in version 1.1.8.4 dated April 2020.
This is planned for our April 2020 update.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a medium priority requirement that should be addressed. While there are many clients with a small number of LPARs, this would get cumbersome as more LPARs need to be managed. Perhaps instead of a default, a setting that can be applied globally could be used.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
IBM has received this requirement and is evaluating it. A response will be provided when evaluation is complete.