Gerhard, I agree with you. We had over 1200 3270's locally attached and never had issues with IBM controllers or devices. Where we did have issues was we had an OEM "channel" extender. That gavesusno end of problems. At one time I was providing the vendor with2 or 3 dumps a day and they were providing me with new "load" decks daily(almost). I was getting really mad with the vendor and I was getting singed by my management over the issues. I finally said either live with the problems or replace it. This was a political bombshell and the vendor got upset with me and I indiated it was their hardware and software and it wasn't my problem. They tried to point at MVS and I indicated that we didn't have problems with IBM hardware. The started to give me more static and I just said look either give me a way to get some traces for you or fix your problems.
They finally came up with a trace program and I ran it till I was blue in the face and was sending them boxes of output for a few weeks and a month later they produced a new load deck ad it actually was a lot more stable but still not as good as IBMs . Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
