iSeries for Student Employees

Requesting Access

 If someone needs access to iSeries for the first time or needs an account created, only a supervisor can submit a request for it. 

1. The supervisor needs to go to his/her employee tab on byui.edu

Employee tab

2. Scroll to the bottom to where it says "Online Training"

3. Then, click the link that says "Supervisor Approval for Access to Special Systems"

Online Training section

4. This will take the supervisor to the log in page where they access the actual request form

Supervisor Approval form

Reminders when requesting for iSeries:
1. Only a supervisor can submit a request.
2. If the I-Number of the person you are looking up in that system has 0s in the beginning, don't put them in (e.g., if the I-Number reads 000567832, they would only have to type  in the 567832)

Accessing & Setting Up iSeries

After receiving access, the student employee can only access iSeries through VDI.

To access VDI, go to: https://vdi.byui.edu/ 

1. Select the following:

2. Log in with your BYUI network login, just like logging on to a campus computer.

3. Select the following: 

4. After a short time, you will be presented with a Windows 10 Desktop.   

5. Double click on the following icon. ​​​​​​

 

6. You may see the following screen. You will have to pull the scroll bar on the right side all the way down till the Agree button is no longer grayed out. Then press the "Agree" button. 

7. Select spencer.byui.edu from the drop down menu. 

8. Then click on 5250 Emulator. 

9. Your IBM i (iSeries) session will show. Now enter your IBM i User ID and Password. 

 


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