Gadi, MacKinney Systems sells a very affordable VTAM session manager we call VTAM/Switch. We'd be glad to talk to you about it. But if you do not have connectivity between the LPARs, no z/OS-based session manager will be able to acquire a session in a different LPAR.
If you mainly want a clear indication of your current LPAR/application, maybe customizing the emulator's title bar to include the host name or VTAM applid would help. The emulators I've worked with have the ability to allow you to customize the value displayed at the top of each emulator session's window. I probably run 5 or 6 different emulator sessions, with at least 2 connected to VTAM/Switch with a handful of sessions open under them. I also use "Send To/Desktop" on my emulator definitions to create shortcuts to them on the Desktop. This allows me to assign "Shortcut Keys" for each session. I then use the unique shortcut key to switch to the session I want. For example, I can press Ctrl-Alt-1 and get to a session which is connected to VTAM/Switch running on one system, Ctrl-Alt-2 immediately brings up a VTAM/Switch session on a different system. Ctrl-Alt-z gets me a z/OS Console. And so on. I use the shortcut keys to get immediate access to the session I want, and the title is customized to verify that I'm on the correct system. Hth, Wendell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
