Richard
> ... so I got a copy of the old network solicitor from someone ...
That may be *an* old network solicitor. The original IBM network solicitor was
written with "basic" mode macros rather than "record" mode macros. ("Basic"
mode was or pre-SNA devices and was dropped eons ago. NTO was a by-
product of this "move" IIRC. That'll make the "eon" around the early '80s I
guess.) I expect the code you have now and had then has always
used "record" mode macros.
I (too) was unimpressed and so wrote my own for 3270 devices only in order
to have a pretty logo on the display screen when it was idle. USS was around
but USS message 10 was a bit later on the scene. A handy feature of VTAM
support for the network solicitor was that VTAM started it automatically so
you just needed to give your own network solicitor the same name as the
supplied network solicitor - in a partitioned data set earlier in the VTAMLIB
concatenation I suppose.
> We no longer have any real 3270's, the closest is OSC attached terminals.
Using the OSA-ICC feature (CHPID type OSC) TN3270 server is quite
equivalent to - as "real" as - using pre/non-SNA 3270 devices. They are
known to VTAM through LOCAL statements and VTAM can operate USS
processing using the 3270 data stream. This is unlike TN3270 supported
through the z/OS TN3270 server which is known to VTAM through APPL
statements - and where VTAM has no interest whatsoever at all in the USS
processing.
Chris Mason
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 12:52:18 -0500, Richard Peurifoy <r-
[email protected]> wrote:
>Martin Kline wrote:
>
>> BTW, for everyone (anyone?) who bothered to read this far, how many use
a
>> custom USS table? Is it just Chris, Patrick, myself and a couple other
people in
>> the world?
>
>When we had real 3270's, I used a custom table.
>When we first setup TCP/IP the TN3270 server didn't support
>USS tables, so I got a copy of the old network solicitor
>from someone on IBM-MAIN or IBMTCP-L (don't remember which).
>
>This is what was used in VTAM before USS support, and produces
>a simialr looking screen.
>
>Since I had all the code, I could add things to the
>display that aren't available through USS. We even switched
>to using this for the real 3270's.
>
>When TN3270 added USS support, we didn't switch because
>we wanted to keep the additions we had made.
>
>We no longer have any real 3270's, the closest is OSC
>attached terminals. I am using our solicitor for these
>as well, but do have a USS table defined in case the solicitor
>is unavailable.
>
>--
>Richard
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