On Monday, 04/12/2004 at 04:44 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. Sounds like the 7171 idea might be less work, then. If the 7171 > transparent mode trigger sequence caused the VM telnet server to > negotiate the DONT_3270 option and then switch to NVT mode, that might > be good enough. You could keep the transmission size below the maximum > screen size for a 3270 write, and still keep things fairly tolerable for > the ANSI terminal user (since a VT100 is relatively smart, you can do a > lot in relatively few characters). You'd still need the solicitor to > select what guest to connect to, but you'd have to do less surgery in CP > to get it to work.
The solution has to work for guests and natively in an LPAR. Without better 3270 support in Linux, a well-defined pipe that accepts ASCII is the only reasonable solution, I think. That means the integrated VT console. In an LPAR it talks to a VT emulator on the SE. In VM, it "simply" needs to be connected to a TCP pipe to a network-attached VT emulator. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
