Re: More on AS400 Signon screen

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:34 11/29/2002, Trevor Perry wrote:
> I was wondering why we so often feel the need to change the signon screen.
> Our companies/customers are paying us to provide services that allow their
> businesses to operate. How is it that we, the service provider, find that we
> can charge our time for modifying the signon screen - something that has
> (IMHO) zero business value?
Generally, I agree with you, but I did change a signon screen once to add
some ad-hoc message fields. The intent was to show messages about scheduled
system outages, forthcoming updates, etc, primarily on some shop floor
terminals. It didn't turn out to be very effective, but then, not much else
did either, short of personally visiting all the departments.


Pete Hall
pbhall@ameritech.net
http://www.pbhall.us/