Kriss Since, according to your analysis, this mainly concerns CICS, you should really be posting in the CICS-L list - although there's no reason why your query should not be posted here - just so long as the "cross-posting" is mentioned.
The order in which you present your information could do with some attention. You appear to want to set up a number of simultaneous TN3270 connections from a PC workstation to a TN3270 server which establishes sessions generally to the VTAM application CICS. Stated more generally, you want to run - I assume - transactions which are written to employ 3270-oriented calls as individual windows on a PC workstation. I mentioned your apparent requirement in the form of the previous paragraph just in case CICS - or just possibly a CICS add-on program - or simulator - provided such a function. This seems ultimately what you want. However I have no knowledge of such a program or feature of CICS. Going back to the TN3270 approach, why can't you just do what I describe? Is it that what I described was possible with the flavour of CICS you used before CICS/TS 3.1 and that something in CICS/TS 3.1 stops you doing that? How does this have anything to do with the session manager - of which you would have no need in the described scenario? More mysteriously how does "giving up some functions" relate to anything?!? Actually you mention RACF so perhaps there's some aspect of your security definitions which might assist understanding. I'm sorry if it's obvious what this might be to someone closer to the CICS of today. I'm butting in as an old VTAM hand only because "VTAM" was in the name of the Mackinney product and it caught my eye. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davis Kriss P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 03 January, 2007 5:18 PM Subject: VTAMSWITCH and muliple " MSwindows" of CICS screens. > 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
