great ideas one and all. The clients are presented with a ussmsg10
selection screen with a choice of about 8 or so VTAM apps; 1 goes to
z/VM the others out to SNA land. So the MSG10 screen will have to be
presentned to the users when SCEXIT DIALs VTAM.
David
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Monday, 10/30/2006 at 02:38 CST, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I've chatted with the client aome more and have a better idea of what's
actually happening....
1) an end user TN3270s to a specific IP address,
Ah. Now that's a horse of a different color. This is the old-style
"TN3270 offload" functionality favored for many years by z/OS shops due to
the uncertain changes in CPU and memory consumption engendered by the
change from LU2 to TN3270. Most have moved past it now.
2) the Cisco router then connects the TN3270 cleint to a VTAM Netview
Access Services application (NVAS) [The magic incantation "VTAM LST" was
also heard at this point of the discussions....:-)]
VTAMLST = The filetype of VTAM configuration files.
I'll take a look now at the exit DB mentioned and see if I can't figure
it
out. There are no plans to bring in Linux on zSeries (for EE) or to
replace
the 3745 box......just the two Cisco routers.
Since the users are using TN3270, not SNA LU2, then the users can telnet
directly into the VM system instead of to the Cisco box. No EE required
and no effect on SNA connectivity. As DB said, yes, you can use SCEXIT to
DIAL VTAM and bring up the [primitive] USSMSG10 selection screen or, if
you leave NVAS in place, then the default APPL on the LOCAL devices (that
are DIALed into) can be set to NVAS.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
