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Ah, now I think I understand what you are saying on how to set it up. This type of set-up is NOT intuitive.
We are also told to not use IP addresses because they can change.
So, maybe the 'Performance' section needs to be updated to support a DNS entry somehow?
Using the IP is a work around and not a solution. We would still be limited to 2 connections per server. And then there is the fact that the drop-down to select the connection has the IP and not any other information.
It would make more sense if the Drop-down for selecting the Connection was a "Description" field and the actual Server field used for connection was a property under that.
Ex:
SystemA - Test
SystemA - Qsecofr
SystemA - UserXYZ
...
As was previously mentioned, this support is already available by specifying the IP address on the Connections tab at:
System Configurations, New, on the Connection tab and in the Performance section specify an "IP address lookup frequency" of "Never - Specify IP address". Then you will need to provide the IP address of the system.
The Password Prompting section can be set to whatever you prefer and on the General tab the system name will not be used to do a DNS lookup so it can be set to whatever you prefer. The caveat of course is that if the IP address of the system changes, this configuration will have to be manually changed to point to the new IP address.
Does this satisfy the request?
I'm not sure what's being asked here. I currently have one IBM i system and I have multiple connections defined for it. On the bottom half of Connection tab, I select "Never - Specify IP address" so that I control what system it points to. You can set up the top half (Password Prompting) in whatever works for your purpose.