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Thank you for submitting your request. I agree this would be most useful. However, after thinking about this some more, I keep circling back to the limitation that we do not know the user profile name at the time the first request is put to the server (running in QUSRWRK, in this case). Therefore, we can't reject only the users that aren't to be rerouted because we don't know which ones are to be rerouted until we make that first connection.
There might be other ways to configure things that might get you closer to what you are trying to accomplish, but I don't see a way to make it work for your specific use case, which seems like a very common setup.
Moving this to "under consideration" for further evaluation. But it is unlikely this can be accomplished with the limitations of the current design.
Here is a link to the support document referenced in the Description: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/638059
The following document further explains how the Route by User function works - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/666597
The request cannot go directly to the subsystem configured for the route by user because the user name is not known at the time the first connection is made. So a connection must be made in the subsystem where the prestart job is configured or where the daemon job is running before it can be routed to the subsystem configured for a specific user.
The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial 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.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM