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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 10:00 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > A TN3270 client has an IP address, may have a domain name and does not > have an LUNAME. The TN3270 has a pool of LUNAMEs that it assigns from when > a client connects. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Charles Mills <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 1:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to get a workstation name from ip address > > I hesitate a little to possibly just add to the noise because I don't > really know the answer; I'm just hypothecating. > > Does a workstation necessarily have a name? In the protocol, I mean. A > dumb terminal with no name can do telnet. Is there anything to the > connection request other than "Hi, I'm 192.168.1.1, let's connect"? There's > no query where the mainframe says "tell me about yourself," right? > > I don't recall anything in my 3270 emulator (Tom Brennan's Vista) where I > say "here is my name to give to the host." There is a space for an "LU > name" but it's blank and I have no idea what it is for. My Windows has a > hostname but there is no reason to think it is unique in any given host's > clients. > > I fear the question may not have an answer. > > There's always my favorite approach: disable it and see who screams. > (Yeah, you could put out some sort of warning broadcast a month in advance.) > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of don isenstadt > Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 9:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: How to get a workstation name from ip address > > Hello..we have many users who are still using port 23 unsecured..so we can > easily identify them with a display tcpip command po=23. The list of ip > addresses needs to be translated to a workstation name because the ip > addresses are volitile. Ping -a does not work on the mainframe. We want > the command to be run from the mainframe. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
