We have asked the vendor (Mackinney) and they have said "no", but we are thinking, if we are willing to give up some functions in VTAMSWITCH, we can get where we want to go with it.
It could be we are just not asking the right question or explaining the need well. We can "rotate" through multiple "applications" (multiple active CICS sessions). Rotating meaning by pressing a PA key, each active CICS sessions/screen will be brought up in the emulator in succession. Works great. However, our end users "used" to be able to start up multiple tn3270 sessions and then log into multiple CICS sessions and keep them visible simultaneously. This allowed the end users to have multiple CICS sessions up on their Windows desktops and not have to rotate through them. For example, having a CICS inquiry screen up in one MS WINDOW and and UPDATE screen visible in another. Also, this allowed cut and paste between two or more "visible" CICS screens. We are using RACF to control access and we are at CICS/TS 3.1 so have its facilities. Is there an alternative to TN3270 running through the WEB to perhaps pass the userid/credentials directly to CICS (kind of a WEB VTAM?) that might allow multiple connections? Z/os 1.7. one terminal owning region and multiple AORs. DB2 V8. Just curious if we are missing something like "dynamic" terminal assignment or something. And again, it just may not be a function the product supports as the vendor has explained. We were caught kind of off-guard on the "viewing simultaneous" piece. We could give up "terminal stealing", "messaging", etc. for example. At least in the short run. Perhaps a small additional product? Only a small subset need TSO access. Most users are CICS users. Perhaps a small additional product? Thanks in advance, Kriss Davis ISU [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
