The issue isn't the size, it's the effective resolution. 37" doesn't
help if it's only a 1024x786 screen.
On my laptop (17" widescreen, 1680 x 1050), I can get almost 3
tn3270X sessions next to each other ( a few pixels overlap), and
another 2 on the 1280x1024 17" screen next to it. If I didn't mind
running at 24 lines rather than 43 lines I could easily stack them
one on top of each other. So that'd be 10 sessions. (At "Built-in
12 pt. font, reduced line spacing"). The screen appears to be 6
character cells too narrow to hold all three across, so I think
what's going on is that it's a 7-pixel character cell and I'm getting
one spare column's worth on each side in the emulator. So presumably
if I overlapped my windows just right I could actually get all the
displayable columns of each screen up there at once, and see 10
sessions at one time. This is more than I need at once. YMMV.
The classic 3270 font is a 9x14 character cell, I think. So divide
your width by 9 and your height by 14 to figure out how many total
rows/columns you can get out of your display, and subtract a bit for
your window decorations. That should tell you how many monitors you
need to buy.
Adam
On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Feller, Paul wrote:
We use PCs with 19 inch flat panel monitors. We run 4 "sessions" on
each screen. The PCs are running IBM PCOMM under Windows-XP. They
are
all connect to OSA-ICC cards. At the local site we run one monitor
per
PC and at a remote site we are running two monitors per PC.
Paul
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Subject: Mainframe Consoles
We are looking at replacing our Multiprise 2000 with a z9, and the
issue
of replacing the console terminals has come up.
Currently, we have 3 3290 gas plasma terminals with 4 screens on each
for our VSE guests, and a 3472 terminal for VM. We actually need the
equivalent of 12 terminals sessions. We plan on using OSA-ICC for the
new consoles. It does not look practical to stuff 12 17-inch LCD
monitors into our console area. We experimented with multiple BlueZone
terminal emulator sessions on a 37-inch LCD monitor, but the result
was
not very readable.
