>I normally use an ssh or (non-3270) telent session to get a "real" >Unix shell on z/OS, but sometimes it is necessary or convenient to >use the TSO OMVS command.
Out of curiosity and to better understand your requirement, can you give some examples of where it is necessary of convenient? I just hardly ever use TSO OMVS if I have telnet/ssh available. I do the TSO/ISPF stuff in the 3270 TSO session and the unix stuff in one or more telnet/ssh sesions. >I thought it might be nice to write an OMVS replacement as an ISPF >dialog, but it is not obvious to me that it is very easy to do... Remember, TSO OMVS starts a UNIX shell (such as /bin/sh) in the background and then acts kind of like a mediator between the half-duplex 3270 forground TSO session and the full duplex UNIX background session. One of the things it has to do is cache all STDOUT and STDERR output from the UNIX session, "translate" it to "3270 data stream" and display it in chunks. This it not meant to justify the current implementation. I just wanted to support your impression it would not be easy to do. It will have its rough edges whatever you try, I think. As said, I just don't have a need for it. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
