John I realise this is intended to be a joke of some sort in response to another joke of some sort. That aspect having been noted, in the matter of the mapping of Unformatted System Services command text strings to VTAM API calls which create Formatted System Services request units by the TN3270E server, the z/OS Communications Server (CS) SNA Programming manual is not of any great use in understanding the flow associated with USS tables.
What you need to create USS tables is explained in the z/OS CS SNA Resource Definition Reference manual as Rex indicated. However you need to have patience with the rather laboured treatment - par for the course in IBM manuals in general - which reminds me that I heard that the author of a new edition of a set of product manuals who had merely "rearranged the chairs" under some misleadingly promising "How To" section titles received an award for his efforts - "Plus ça change ..." The USS section is worth "revisiting" from time to time in order to see whether any new substitutions are possible in the USS messages. It may not generally be appreciated that some of the fields are specifically for the benefit of the TN3270E server pretending to behave like the VTAM SSCP but extending that support to inserts relevant only for TN3270E. If the author of RFC 2355 had taken the trouble to wade though that USS section, he may have appreciated that the support for the USS LOGOFF command should have been defined much, much more closely in terms of how VTAM behaving as an SSCP supported the LOGOFF command. The manual which actually offers help in "knowing what's going on" with respect to USS flows is the z/OS CS SNA Diagnosis Vol 1, specifically Figure 119. Chris Mason On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:08:06 -0600, Chase, John <jch...@ussco.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. >> >> From what I remember from long ago is that the USSCMD replaces your >> keyed-in P39TMMVF with a LOGON APPLID(TMONMVS) which is what VTAM >> actually uses to log you on. For further information, check the SNA >> resource definition reference manual. There is a section on USSTAB >that >> (kinda) explains the parameters. :-) > >And if you *really* want to know what's going on, read the SNA >Programming Reference manual. :-) > > -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
