> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?
<snip> > > And I'll repeat my wish for "background initiated foreground". x3270 > is open source; it could be recast to operate as an agent so an x3270 > invoked on the mainframe might open an X11 window on the desktop. > As many concurrent sessions as one wishes, even on a single host. Actually, this should be rather simple. Set up a UNIX environment. Set the DISPLAY environment variable to have the IP or host name of the desktop. Set your X server on the desktop to allow connections from the z/OS system (xhost). Invoke x3270. How is this superior to doing a x3270 on my desktop? I am not understanding the reason to run x3270 on z/OS instead of the desktop. If you mean do this x3270 stuff from your TSO session, then the complication would be the switching from one x3270 session to another. And, from what little I understand, TSO is not really set up to be multitasking. That is why ISPF does not really integrate TSO commands from option 6 into its environment. I think that to do this, something would need to "trap" the TPUT/TGET/TPG calls (subsystem SVC screening?) and implement a sort of set of virtual 3270 terminals which can be switched between. But x3270 isn't needed to do this, at least I can think of why it would be. Oh, just so everybody knows (as if they didn't already), I'm really getting out of my depth in this. > The hard part is getting TSO to talk to sockets instead of to VTAM. I know that BMC has some code which allows their TSO/ISPF Mainview interfaces to be used in a started task (similar to TSO in that one logs onto the STC, but the STC starts another STC and does a CLDST PASS to pass control of the LU to the new STC). I wonder if they might be interested in looking at how difficult it would be to change their "emulation" code to talk to sockets instead of VTAM. However, this is deprecated in favor of using a web browser to interface to their new STC. > > -- gil -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
