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I sent the following message to another list I'm on but have had little
response from that group of users. I suspect the users on that list are
not familiar with the many features of VESOFT other than basic security
and maybe the menus. The majority of my users never see the colon
prompt (unless a job blows up!) because we use VESOFT menus heavily.
I'm posting my earlier message here to solicit your sage advice and
input! TIA!
 
> We have used the LOGOFF function of VESOFT's software numerous times in
> the past when we are preparing to do maintenance. We generally do this
> maintenance at the end of the day on a Friday (after 5pm) and use
> LOGOFF to abort sessions on machines that have been left idle for 10+
> minutes. Once all users are logged off, we then proceed to make the
> system unavailable to users for the duration of the maintenance, whether
> for installation of software, system upgrades, or whatever.
>
> We're also interested in using the LOGOFF function to abort idle sessions
> during normal operating hours. Targeted users would be staff who have
> left terminals or PCs to go to lunch, breaks or meetings. However, our
> initial attempt to do this caused some strange things to happen when a
> user was in an INLEX module.
 
[For those of you who don't know, INLEX is online library catalog S/W
that uses a lot of "block mode" type screens.]
 
> Does anyone else out there utilize VESOFT's LOGOFF program? How do you
> use it? What problems have you encountered? if you use it during library
> hours, how has staff reacted? We've had a mixture of opinions, both good
> and bad.
>
> Thanks for your input. I'm anxiously awaiting your replies!
>
> Cindee
 
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 Cynthia D. Bridges-Fowler                Phone:  1-913 551-3280 ext. 361
 Computer Systems Supervisor
 Kansas City, Kansas Public Library       Fax:    1-913 551-3221
 625 Minnesota Avenue
 Kansas City, Kansas 66101-2805           email:  [log in to unmask]
 
               Opinions are my very own.....not the library's.
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