I would like to request a feature that would make Firebird more like
MS SQL Server and make it easier for users to log into databases.

My request is to add the ability to log on to a server that
I can see on my network and then choose from a picklist of the
databases that it knows of and log in to that database.

I don't believe that Firebird servers are visible on the network
presently. As a user, I have to know it exists and connect to it
directly. I don't know how difficult it is to set up the kind of
visibility that would allow a user to pick a particular server from a
list.

Maybe the other part is more difficult than I believe, but it seems
like most of the functionality is there already. I
was thinking that, since the server has a list of its aliases in
aliases.conf file, it could export a function that would enumerate
these databases. To me that seems fairly simple.

I am assuming that, once these functions are available, it would not
be difficult for the makers of administration and query tools to take
advantage of them.

Does this seem like a good feature to add to Firebird?

Thank You
-Jack