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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:00:28 EST
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- From: Peggy Yetter <YETTER@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: RE: Problems with MDAS 1.3
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- > Having installed MDAS 1.3 in our test region, I would like to point
- > out a couple of things which I see as problems, mostly due to changed
- > or removed functionality.
- >
- > 1. For a secured database (one which requires sign-on) it is no longer
- > possible to define a subset of terminals which does not require
- > sign-on.
- >
- > Under MDAS 1.21, we require dial-in users of our Wilson databases
- > to sign on, because our Wilson contract requires it, but we do not
- > require sign-on on the in-building terminals, because Wilson does
- > not require that. This is possible under 1.21, because sign-on is
- > part of the terminal control in nsys. Now, sign-on has been moved
- > out of terminal control and into Navigator control with 1.3, so
- > if you define a database to require sign-on, it will do so with all
- > terminals.
- >
- > This creates a problem, of course, for community users, high school
- > students, etc., who don't fall under our Wilson contract but were
- > always able to use Wilson if they came into the building. Changed
- > functionality is forcing us to be more restrictive than we have to be
- > or find some unsatisfactory work-around.
- >
- . . . . . .
- > email: anne-highsmith@tamu.edu
-
- We were able to have terminals that had patron signon security and other
- terminals that did not for the same database. You create one navigator
- grouping for your databases and set "signon" to "y" and create
- another navigator grouping with the same databases but set "signon"
- to "n". We have a number of configurations depending on the library
- so I've resorted to treating the parameter name like an UPSI switch. The
- first letter has to be alpha but after that each place represents a
- database with "1" meaning security on and "0" meaning security off,
- e.g., M011001. We have set the parameter display to "n" so that the
- public never sees this and the description name is the same for all
- profiles. This naming configuration really helps when I then go to the
- terminal definition to insert this parameter name under "group".
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- | Peggy Yetter : Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center |
- | Systems Analyst : 3420 Walnut Street |
- | University of Pennsylvania : Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 |
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- | MVS/ESA 4.2; CICS 2.1; NOTIS 5.0.2; MDAS 1.2; GTO 3.0 |
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