I don't mean to sound like a salesman, there are a few pluses for TPX that I have not seen mentioned.
-- Sometimes a person has a unique userid or password on one app. For example, I have a userid and password on a CICS region that is different from my TSO credentials. TPX can map *your* credentials for an oddball app so that you can log on seamlessly. -- TPX has (I think an add-on) feature to assist in changing password. If you have apps on a dozen different SAF plexes, you can change your password in TPX itself, then logon one by one to all other TPX-supported apps. TPX recognizes that you just changed your password in that session, so as long as the old password on an app is the same as the old TPX password, TPX will automatically change the target password to match. You can rip through a dozen apps in a minute. -- You can define different PFKeys to take you straight to particular sessions--limited only by the number of PFKeys. I don't know of any emulator--even the best one--that can perform these functions. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** fwiw, I use Vista TN3270, and almost exclusively for TSO. I typically have 3-10 sessions at a time. Each runs its own window and process. It works quite well, and each session can be sized (and sounded!... cowbell means this, marimba means that) to suit. Kudos forever to Tom Brennan. fwiw, I am a long-time paid customer, and will boldly state he doesn't charge as much as he should (he might boldly state I can send him more money anytime I please). Long ago (if not so far away), I used TPX, but that was mainly back in the real 327x days, and when VTAM was more than just a vestige. It was then a killer app. The only advantage I can perceive now is the ability to recover from network breakages more cleanly. Fortunately, that's not much of a problem for me, and most systems patiently wait for me to reconnect anyway. I do wish I wasn't afflicted and infected with Windows, but that's a different off-topic, and doesn't really affect 3270 emulation much. sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
