How To: Setup DCMS Session icon for a CMI user On Windows 10

How To: Setup DCMS Session Icon For A CMI User On Windows 10
Article posted by: Wayland Chin 
Date: 08/10/2022

Click, ‘Start’, then on the main ‘Start Menu Layout’ we’ve pre-setup and included the usual suspects—click on ‘Start or Configure…’

You’ll be presented with all the prebuilt sessions all around, if your division isn’t showing send eMail to CMSupport@core-mark.com.

Inside the ‘IBM Personal Communications – Session Manager’, look for your division session.

Either double-click on it or simply select/highlight it and click ‘Start”.

If the user needs another division, simply do the same for it.

The usual dialog will pop-up.
Select "Use default user ID, prompt as needed"
Have the user to enter in their DCMS username and click ‘OK’ or hit ‘Enter’ on the keyboard.

Common mistake is to type their password and it gets set.

Now it’s time for the password, simply type it in and hit ‘Enter’ of click ‘OK’

There’s the ever so popular black-green screen.
This screen indicates that DCMS is ready to be logged into.
If it does not show this green screen there could be a network connectivity/VPN issue for the desktop or PC.

Setup up the printer.

From the initial setup for the user, if you picked the default printer for whole windows, (s)he will just piggy-back from it.

Click ‘File’, click ‘Printer Setup…’ .

On the ‘Printer Setup’ dialog, click and check the box ‘Use Windows Default Printer’.

Click ‘OK’ when finish.

Test it out just to make sure it’s printing.

You can have the user click and open ‘Start or Configure…’ icon on the ‘Start Layout’ or create a shortcut for them

Click and open Start or Configure…’ icon on the ‘Start Layout’ and you’ll have the ‘Session Manager’ again

Select and drag the icon into the desktop for shortcut for the user.

Example of a DCMS icon shortcut created on the desktop