Re: GUIfication of tn3270 screens

2012-08-11 Thread Don Poitras
Any pc/mainframe client/server model would work for this. If it were me, I'd just use TCP/IP and have the mainframe side startup first and listen on a port. The PC debugger gui then connects to that IP/port and send the info back and forth with socket programming. In article

Re: ESCON

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
John ... CTC; to implement VTAM cross domain ... I *think* I understand what you are saying here but in case it is not clear to *all* subscribers, it might be worth emphasising that there is a. one flavour of the implementation of channel-to-channel (CTC) connections which works *only* with

Re: ESCON

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
If this appears twice blame the lamentatble - did I say lamentable - performanbce of the list service! - John ... CTC; to implement VTAM cross domain ... I *think* I understand what you are saying here but in case it is not clear to *all* subscribers, it might be worth emphasising that

Re: ESCON

2012-08-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason) writes: In fact, for a reason having everything to do with marketing and nothing whatsoever technical, VTAM does *not* implement LEN protocols over the type 2.1 CTC, only APPN protocols. aka ... at the time APPN was to be announced ... the communication

Re: reasons for using started task or batch job

2012-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
John Regarding your paranoia - pay-back time for false accusations of ranting! - over the PPT: Some STCs must still be single step, such as ... anything running a program in the PPT. The best policy here would be actually to read up on what is said about multiple/single steps in the