On 13 Sep 2013 07:26:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on 09/12/2013 > at 07:29 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> said: > >>the person who decided that local SNA >>327X devices could only be accessed though VTAM > >They used to be accessed by TCAM as well. If your complaint is that >the CONSOLE address space can't access them directly, but only as SNA >consoles, that would require that the entire cluster be used for >nothing but consoles, or that the CONSOLE address space was bloated >with MSNF code.
My complaint, poorly stated is that locally attached 327x devices had to be NON-SNA in order to be used as consoles. Since my memory never was perfect, they may not have been BiSync. Clark Morris > >>requiring shops to have 2 BiSync 327x controllers for console availability > >There is no support for bisynch consoles. > >>At least code to read PDSE's should be available to NIP and maybe >>SYS1.NUCLEUS. > >Another case where IBM developers failed to learn from earlier IBM >projects; TSS/360 had page oriented PDS[1] support way back when. > >[1] Actually, the entire volume containing a VPAM library was page > formatted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
