On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:31:37 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sebastian, > >Thanks for your contribution to this rolling mystery. > >Perhaps my Googling went of course by starting with ADCD. URL >http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/MVSDS/'HTTPD2.adcd.global.html(readme17)' led me >into thinking that the base system was FLEX-ES. I am dimly aware there are >other such platforms so perhaps ADCD also runs on a Hercules if port 3270 is >specific to Hercules. I did notice that FLEX-ES documents kept mentioning >port 24 - but it's easy enough to change ports - if the software sticks to >the "goodness" convention of always using the getservbyname() call and the >/etc/services file is modified appropriately. Perhaps the ADCD package >somehow thought that it would be cleverer to use port 3270 in order to >access the local non-SNA channel-attached 3270 emulation. > >That paragraph has at least one too many "perhaps's" in it for comfort. > >Now I do know about VTAM and I'm afraid you are wrong about the USS table - >or maybe just not quite precise enough. You don't get just the first USS >table. What you get is the first USS table that has the name as specified in >the - in this case - LOCAL statement in the VTAMLST member which defines the >local non-SNA channel-attached 3270 devices using the USSTAB operand. Chris, I was not being precise enough as I could see that you know what you're talking about. I think everything has been cleared up by now on what he needs to do (now I would just like a nice tool to create the USSTAB screens as it takes me hours :-) Sebastian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
