On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Dave Jeffs wrote:
> When you say that you "brought up the vncserver" was that on the os/390
> platform?
I believe we were talking about Linux/390 on zSeries, not OS/390 or z/OS.
I don't know that VNC is available under USS. If you're feeling *really*
adventurous you could try and port it (the Redbook "Porting Open Source
Software to Unix System Services" might help you here). I don't suggest
you do this, however.
> We need this capability to install Oracle 9i on our z/OS system.
To clarify, you need to be able to display the graphical output from a
program running on z/OS on another display. While VNC is one way that
this could be accomplished, in your case it is not the best.
The easiest way for you would be:
* Run an X server on a desktop PC (for example Linux or other Unix, or a
Windows PC running an X server such as XFree or Hummingbird Exceed).
* Run the appropriate command on this desktop to allow X connections from
the OS/390 system ('xhost' on Linux/Unix or XFree on Windows-Cygwin, RTFM
for other PC X servers).
* Telnet to USS.
* Set the DISPLAY environment variable to
hostname:0.0
(for hostname, substitute the name or IP address of your X server PC)
* start your command in the Telnet session, it should display on your X
server.
SSH offers a function to short-cut this process, but SSHD is not provided
on USS (the team that wrote the above Redbook looked at it, ISTR).
Cheers,
Vic
