In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/20/2005
   at 09:20 AM, "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>No.

Yes. Read what I wrote.

>host-defined logmodes with both primary & 
>alternate screen sizes hard-coded therein (e.g., SNX3270x)

>I think _you_ need to try it before commenting further.

Does looking at VTAM traces count as trying it? BTDTGTTS.

Exactly; user defined. What you are asking for is a dynamic primary
screen size as the result of a negotiated BIND.

>As stated previously, I've been working with development groups at
>both  IBM and Macro4 as well as providers of 3270 emulators for
>years on this  project. It's slow going.  So far, the only two 3270
>emulators that  allow user-specified primary screen sizes are
>BlueZone and Vista.

So VTAM does accept it?

>So our software's workaround approach thus far 
>has been to _violate the protocol_ and allow the RPQ response to 
>override the 24x80 primary screen size implied by BINPRESZ=x'03'.

What about Explicit Partitions? At least for ISPF.
 
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