Mark If you enter IBMTEST when the SNA LU is in the SSCP-LU - as opposed to the LU-LU state - and the LU is supported by Unformatted System Services (USS), the SSCP (VTAM) will "echo" back to you whatever you have specified as the second positional operand the number of times you specify as the first positional operand on the IBMTEST command.
According to the manual, the defaults are the string you posted and 10 respectively. However, if you write your own USS module, you can change the defaults to whatever seems sensible. Perhaps your version has changed the count default to 1, which is perhaps a bit more sensible than IBM's 10. Perhaps Pat made some change that seemed sensible until he tested it! I expect this should work as well for the Communications Server TN3270 server program as for an SNA session not concatenated to a TN3270 connection but I've not tested it. Was that the environment you were testing? If you've read my response to Pat, you'll know that my guess for the rationale for the USS IBMTEST command is rooted in the technology of the late '60s. Chris Mason On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:10:05 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:03:34 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe ><[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:26:33 -0400, Thompson, Steve >><[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>... >>>The picture and last laugh came from one who had been rebuffed for >>>pointing out the confusion caused by using USS instead of OE or >>>OMVS, or some such. >>>... >> >>I admit I could not tell who got the last laugh and who or what >>was being laughed at, but suspected I might be in the "laughed >>at" catagory. I guess Chris felt that a bit more strongly than I did. >>I think we were both wrong. >> >>And to show how deeply entrenched I am in the old (real :-) ) def >>of USS, when I saw the subject I thought, Oh oh. I misused USS >>once. I replaced the default IBMTEST with something that displayed >>a whole buch of diagnostic stuff. >> >>And if nobody but Chris understands what I just said, well, that's >>fine. >> >>Pat O'Keefe >> > > >I have no idea what you are talking about. > >Regards, > >IBMECHO ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
