What's the difference whether you hotkey between TUBES sessions or TN3270 sessions? We got rid of VM/VTAM and the mulitsession manager, put in OSA-ICCs, and recently booted Attachmate in favor of Bluezone. Saved lots of money. 1. Any tn3270 session is dialable. Local through the osa-icc looks like local, e.g. xautolog tpftest1 on 40. 2. Alt-Tab hotkeys between tn3270 sessioms 3. If the PC goes away, the sessions go DISCOnnected. 4. tn3270 into your VSE/VTAM 5. All emulators should support those devices. I know PCOM, Rhumba, Reflections, and Bluezone do. 6. You get a web deployable tn3270 client as a bonus.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wed 3/10/2010 6:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: GCS Session managers Currently we are running TUBES/GCS session manager. Well, seems the company that took over Macro/4 is raising prices, as in double. So, we are now looking at other VM/VTAM session managers. Multiple TN3270 sessions really is going to be a hard sell. We have some users that have 10-15 sessions active. Also, we have some coax users.... So, what products are out there, that: 1. Can be used as VSE Consoles (i.e. dial vse 01f) and can support IPL'ing VSE systems. 2. Can switch between about two dozen sessions. 3. Can keep all the sessions active, if the PC/Terminal is disconnected. 4. Would be nice to do cross domain to VSE VTAM for CICS sessions. 5. Support 3270 Model 2 thru Model 5 terminals. A lot cheaper than $20K per year for Tubes/GCS. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
