Tom and Mark Using whatever means you have with your TN3270E emulator to specify the RFC 2355 "device-type" character string to "IBM-DYNAMIC" assumes that you have kept the TN3270E server mapping of "device-types" strings to mode table entry names.
If you look at the default TELNETDEVICE statements, you will see that "IBM- DYNAMIC" maps to D4C32XX3 in the TN3270E column (also the TN3270 column in this case). It's because of this association that "IBM-DYNAMIC", in effect, avoids you having to specify D4C32XX3 in your Unformatted System Services (USS - "the original"!) command. There is an alternative to all TN3270E users modifying the PCOMM file. This would be simply to define each TELNETDEVICE statement as follows: TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-2 ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-3 ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-4 ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-5 ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-2-E ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-3-E ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-4-E ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-3278-5-E ,D4C32XX3 TELNETDEVICE IBM-DYNAMIC ,D4C32XX3 That way, no matter which "device-type" was offered by the emulator, the TN3270 server would specify D4C32XX3 as the mode name, corresponding to the mode table entry name, when issuing the REQSESS macro which initiates the SNA 3270 session. Probably some are now tempted to point out that I have missed the "device- types" including "3279". Well, yes I have - for the reason that any emulator that used them would not be in compliance with RFC 2355 - which I assume all are. Incidentally, I can tell that, whoever set up the USS table you used to use - possibly still use - associated the "BAL" format with the USS command you habitually used, hence LOGMODE=D4C32XX3. Had you used the default format, PL1, you would have had to enter LOGMODE(D4C32XX3). Chris Mason On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:37 -0500, Mark Pace <mpac...@gmail.com> wrote: >*>TerminalTypeString=IBM-DYNAMIC* > >Thank you for that! > >On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Tom Marchant <m42tom- ibmm...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:25:13 -0600, Chris Mason wrote: >> > >> >On a serious note, you may like to ask your "network guys" to look into >> setting >> >up D4C32XX3 - or a private equivalent - as the mode table entry to be used >> >universally, thereby allowing the emulator user total control of the rows >> and >> >columns without reference to mode table entry names - or Unformatted >> >System Services (USS) commands such as your nvasxx7 with the mode table >> >entry name built into it. >> >> I used to routinely specify LOGMODE=D4C32XX3 when I connected. That was >> before I learned that I could add this to the [Telnet3270] section in >> PComm: >> TerminalTypeString=IBM-DYNAMIC >> >> That tells TCPIP to use that as the default logmode. >> >> -- >> Tom Marchant > > > >-- >Mark Pace >Mainline Information Systems >1700 Summit Lake Drive >Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
