I wonder if the limitation ones from a session I'd issue. My first session is 'A'; second is 'B'. I wonder what happens after 26 sessions?
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:52 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/17/2013 04:26 AM, Alex Wang wrote: >> Hey, there. >> >> I'm curious about is it possible to open about 50 PCOMM sessions on one PC? >> >> Because I just want to test how many TSO user IDs which could logon the >> system at the same time. >> So I started PCOMM sessions and logon them using different TSO user ID one >> by one. The maximum number of sessions is 25. Because the PCOMM told me 'no >> more sessions could be started' until I have had 25. >> >> Is there any one who did such test before? It seems we couldn't start as >> many sessions as we want on one PC. :-) >> >> Note: >> 1. This is the default definition in our SYS1.PARMLIB(IEASYSXX) >> MAXUSER=500 >> But one of the SP told me the system is running as a z/VM guest machine ID >> and the allocated resources is limited. So she afraid that it could not >> afford 50+ people on the system at the same time. >> 2. I'm using PCOMM Version 5.7 for windows and the OS i'm using is Win7. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > MAXUSER is for all address spaces in the system. The specific max > number of these address spaces that TSO can use is further limited by > USERMAX value in PARMLIB(TSOKEY00), and the way the VTAM TSO > application node is defined to VTAM must also allow for enough distinct > session names to support the TSO USERMAX, or VTAM will become the > limiting factor. Of course if on a machine with limited resources, real > memory, page dataset sizes, CPU could all impose their own limits, or > the logon might be allowed but response could just go to the dogs. A > logged-on TSO session that isn't doing anything obviously requires much > less resource than an active user. > > I can believe that PCOMM might have licensing or design restrictions > that impose session limits unless you pay more. You could either try > using multiple workstations, or look for some alternative TN3270 > application. > > If you have access to a Linux workstation, try free open-software X3270 > for TN3270 support -- definitely no licensing limits on number of > sessions there. For that matter I think you can even run X3270 under > Windows under the cygwin UNIX environment, although it's been a long > time since I tried it. I have recently used cyqwin under Windows 7 > systems, but not for X3270. > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
