From: Gray Maddry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your favorite workstation editor probably won't work. We have had this
discussion before here and on the ISPF list. One of the most
popular PC editors, Ultraedit, doesn't work. ISPF CS is great when you can
get it to work, but it requirements are poorly
documented, such as what port is used.
Some PC editors work and some don't. It would be great if they all worked,
but there are so many workstation editors out there to choose from that it
should be fairly easy to find one that (a) works with the WSA and (b) you
like. For example, THE is a very popular editor and it works fine with WSA.
I agree that documentation of the WSA isn't what it could be. I remember
having quite a struggle when I first set up the WSA at home, where I
sometimes work from my desktop PC and other times I work from my notebook
PC. Eventually I figured out that to set up a connection to whichever PC I
happened to be sitting at, I needed to use a different port.
When I launch WSA.EXE on my desktop it listens for connections on the
default port (i.e. 15993). When I launch WSA.EXE on my notebook, I set it to
listen for incoming connections on port 15994 (i.e. by selecting OPTIONS,
PORT). I then configured my router to forward incoming connections to the
appropriate IP address on my network (i.e. to whichever PC I happened to be
sitting at), based on whichever port the incoming connection was trying to
reach.
Having performed the above 'one-time' setup, the only variable I have to
change is when I issue a connection request from the mainframe. For example,
if I'm sitting at my desktop PC I tell the mainframe to connect to
12.345.67.89:15993. If I'm sitting at my notebook PC I tell the mainframe to
connect to 12.345.67.89:15994. In both cases, I tell the mainframe to
connect to the same IP address (i.e. the public IP address of my network, as
displayed by http://www.ipchicken.com). The only thing I have to remember to
change is the port number.
As a mainframe guy with little knowledge of TCP/IP and networking, it took
me a while to figure this out. Hopefully, my documenting it here might be
useful to someone.
Dave Salt
SimpList - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe!
http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm
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