On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:54:54 -0500, John McDowell <jmcd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I agree that the inability to share the "Integrated 3270" among multiple >concurrent sessions is unfortunate and that it would be a useful enhancement >to list that restriction. Off the top of my head I can see that the >"ownership" of the keyboard will need to be resolved in some way, that is only >one session should be allowed to provide keyboard inputs (i.e. cursor >movement, attention keys, etc.). Otherwise each session could be "fighting" >with the other about what is being done :-( I don't think this problem is >insurmountable and in fact I can think of a couple of different design >approaches that could be used to solve it. Anyone who has used one of the >Windows based conferencing tools has seen how this can be resolved. > I run into that sometimes now with fellow sysprogs (usually not operations) when IPLing LPARs during a maintenance window. Not a huge deal. We either see two people are entering keystrokes or it ends up as an invalid command / reply if someone hits the enter key before we notice. The shared consoles are via CA Automation Point, but also use AF Remote for this. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
