IBM Session Manager Implementation

26 IBM Session Manager Implementation

Re-sequence

Navigate to the Session list screen and select a session you wish to

re-sequence. On the session parameter list screen, select the SEQUENCE

parameter and type in the sequence number you want this session to have.

Press Enter to confirm a change is being made and proceed to select the other

sessions you wish to resequence, and repeat the change process. When you

have added sequence numbers to the sessions you wish to resequence,

navigate to the User definition screen and press PF12 to save the change.

1.3 Dynamic menus

Session Manager provides the ability to dynamically configure menu selections

using access rules specified in the installation’s external security system.

1.3.1 Overview

The dynamic menus facility is provided via the E22 (signon completion) user exit

introduced in Session Manager 1.1.05. This user exit, ISZE22DM, builds a list of

Session Manager sessions available to the user from a default PROFILE

definition that contains the maximum number of expected sessions. In the default

PROFILE, all of the sessions are defined with the parameter HIDE set to Yes,

which indicates that they should not appear on the supplied menu or be

selectable by the user.

The E22 user exit establishes the number of sessions available to the user as

follows:

򐂰 Each APPL in the default PROFILE is checked against external security

system resource profiles. For example, if the supplied sample is used

unchanged, for RACF the resource profile ISZ.APPL.xxxxxxxx would be

checked in CLASS=FACILITY.

򐂰 For sessions that specify an APPL to which the user has READ access, the

session will be “unhidden” by modifying the s_hidden variable for that

session. Only these sessions will then appear on the user’s Session Manager

menu.

The actual number of sessions available to the user is likely to be less than the

maximum number of expected sessions.

Note: Sessions that do not have a sequence number appear on Session

Manager menus in session/PF Key order after sessions with a sequence

number.