[OT] - X.25 PAD ? (was: TN3270 *from* a host??)

2008-07-01 Thread Ivan Warren
Chris Mason wrote: I learned all about this topic even before I started playing with UNIX systems by having to teach X.25 PAD and the 3708 protocol converter. There's no better way to drive the point home than by having students in an X.25 class enter set 2:0 . ot knitpicking Err..

Re: [OT] - X.25 PAD ? (was: TN3270 *from* a host??)

2008-07-01 Thread Chris Mason
Ivan IIRC (number 1) You certainly have remembered correctly - I would wish my students could remember as well and summarise the 3 Xs as competently! The abbreviation for the class was X.25 and the abbreviation for the topic within the class was PAD. I never actually described the topic as

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-30 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
I was going to say I fear that there is a risk that you may be wrong again :-( and you're not taking me with you this time :-) - but see later. Sorry for not taking you with me. I probably leant out of the window too far this time; not my favourite subject, so I may well be choosing the wrong

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-30 Thread Chris Mason
Peter You misunderstood. I wasn't talking about the raw option but your contention that raw wasn't supported. You were entirely correct. Now you have explained and it looks just like what I described in my response to Natarajan as echo mode. So indeed such a protocol, efficient only when used

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Pat It would be incorrect to say that the concept of the socket is foreign to the Pascal API - but it's almost the case. Searching for the word socket in the Pascal chapter of the CS IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference manual and ignoring the hits from the bottom

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Edward Thank you for your concern. If you imply by this that I was not able just to try what had been proposed, you are right. I am in some sort of state of retirement but I am not only cultivating my garden. I am assisting a customer with certain very interesting projects involving both

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
if TLS isn't supported as you say. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Peurifoy Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? ... It should be mentioned that the telnet

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Dave ... any other application I can logon to in the target system. (which is all of them) Just to be sure your confidence hasn't derailed you, as I pointed out to Peter Hunkeler, not *all* applications - understood to be those running on a z/OS LPAR - are necessarily accessed using some

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Dave Thanks for clarifying open. It could also be construed as implying OMVS which in turn tends to point to the otelnetd server. Another way you could avoid having a TN3270 server on each LPAR on your physical machine is to set up SNA connectivity over your HiperSockets CHPIDs using

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Tony Well, the restatement is still rather overspecified. TN3270 is a protocol, not a particular set of client and server software, originally rather loosely specified, which has been more clearly and accurately defined over time in RFCs 1647 and 2355. Strictly TN3270 is not a protocol but

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Natarajan Block mode is terminology I associate with asynchronous ASCII displays rather than 3270. You may have been familiar with this terminology before you got to know the wonderful 3270 devices in that list - or maybe you never have seen any of the listed devices. If so, you haven't really

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Richard TLS (SSL) including AT-TLS is a topic with which I have yet thoroughly to familiarise myself. However, I believe that it needs hooks in the logic under the API used by the application using the transport protocol, e.g. TCP (or should that be i.e.?). My understanding of the situation

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Peter Thanks for the clarification. You don't have this raw mode available in TSO OMVS shell sessions and you don't have it in TSO TELNET shell sessions. I was going to say I fear that there is a risk that you may be wrong again :-( and you're not taking me with you this time :-) - but see

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Chris Mason
Brian The only key that is not passed through is the ATTN key. This 'breaks' transparent mode and reverts to linemode, enabling you to enter telnet control commands such as 'quit', for example. Describing the use of Attn as causing the connection to revert to linemode is misleading. It

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-29 Thread Gibney, Dave
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? Dave According to some nice diagrams on an IBM web page I have seen explaining Hipersockets, to say using

TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Andrew McLaren
Hi all, Kind of a weird question I know, but ... it has been a day full of weird questions. A customer would like to know if they can open a TN3270 session *from* one z/OS host, to another z/OS host? I do not believe this is possible. For a start, you cannot have 2 SSCPs in the same

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Edward Jaffe
Andrew McLaren wrote: A customer would like to know if they can open a TN3270 session *from* one z/OS host, to another z/OS host? I do not believe this is possible. For a start, you cannot have 2 SSCPs in the same Domain; so how can you have a Dependent LU?. Besides, there is no TN3270

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
TSO TELNET is not a TN3270 client, it supoprts only line mode. If you telnet to the foreign host's TN3270 server listening port (23 usualkly) you'll be able to login into TSO line mode. ISPF would not work, since it requires full screen mode (afaik, I haven't tried in a while). If you telnet to

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? TSO TELNET is not a TN3270 client, it supoprts only line mode

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Actually, what do you think you're reaching when you use (what ever TN3270) emulator you're using on your Window$ desktop? Not sure I understand what you're asking, but... A TN3270 telnet client understands the 3270 protocol and is capable of doing full screen mode, which is required for TSO

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Greg Price
Hunkeler Peter , KIUK 3 wrote: TSO TELNET is not a TN3270 client, it supoprts only line mode. I think it's safe to say the the TELNET command accessible from the READY prompt does support TN3270. At least it is possible to use it to telnet to another z/OS and get the VTAM logo and logon to TSO

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
I think it's safe to say the the TELNET command accessible from the READY prompt does support TN3270. At least it is possible to use it to telnet to another z/OS and get the VTAM logo and logon to TSO and crank up ISPF in all of its 7-colour glory. Indeed! I stand corrected! Should have tried

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Tonni J Ottosen
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Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Andrew I believe Peter Hunkeler is putting us more or less on the right track here in stating that there is no support for the 3270 data stream from the TELNET client function available from TSO. Of course there may be other vendors somehow supplying this function and, taking his post at face

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Peter telnet daemon / inet daemon listening port (623 or 1023 are widely used) ... although they don't have to be since VIPAs and the PORT list BIND parameter are there to allow use of port 23 for access using the z/OS UNIX TELNET server to z/OS UNIX as well as using port 23 to access the

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Dave Please be more specific about what you actually achieve here. the command TSO TELNET ip address will reach the TN327o server running on a TCPIP open z/OS LPAR is not in dispute - with or without the open whatever you may mean by that, perhaps the z/OS UNIX TELNET server (otelnetd). Do you

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Peter Use of 3270 data stream is *not* required for CICS and IMS - and possibly some of the applications you have in mind in your etc. etc.. They at least are happy to run with the 3767 emulator supported by the so-called TN3270 server when 3270 functions are *not* agreed during the TELNET

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Greg Are you sure you are not talking about the z/OS UNIX TELNET server? See my response to Andrew McLaren. I cannot find any support for your contention in the manual: z/OS Communications Server IP User's Guide and Commands Version 1 Release 9 SC31-8780-07. Please explain how (you think)

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Tonni Other than confusion over which TELNET client may be being used, it may be that there is some confusion over what *from* a z/OS host means. Does this imply using the TSO TELNET client as most responders have assumed or does it mean a TN3270 connection to a TN3270 server in one system

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 6/26/08, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please explain how (you think) you are doing it. If you issue tso telnet zoshostname from your tso/ispf session you will be presented with a full screen logon in the same manner as if you used a TN3270 client from a pc. If you then hit PA1 you

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Peter The function postulated in this thread has certainly not been always supported - always starting from the earliest flavour of TCP/IP for VM - or it escaped my extensive testing of the function in the earliest TCP/IP for MVS and the documentation. That such a handy function would escape

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Mansell, George R.
From 1 Tso to another tcpip stack, certainly full screen: READY telnet p3l1 MVS TCP/IP TELNET CS V1R7 Connecting to P3L1 198.176.137.228, port TELNET (23) *** Using Transparent Mode... Notes on using Telnet when in Transparent Mode: - To enter Telnet Command, Hit PA1

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Jim The acid test is getting something like ISPF running having used the TSO TELNET command. I'm afraid just seeing a USS message 10 isn't sufficient. It's the TN3270 server which is responsible for presenting you with USS messages. You need to get past this point in order to be playing in the

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread John P Kalinich
Andrew McLaren of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 06/26/2008 12:56:17 AM: Hi all, Kind of a weird question I know, but ... it has been a day full of weird questions. A customer would like to know if they can open a TN3270 session *from* one z/OS host, to

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 6/26/08, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim The acid test is getting something like ISPF running having used the TSO TELNET command. I'm afraid just seeing a USS message 10 isn't sufficient. It's the TN3270 server which is responsible for presenting you with USS messages. You

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Bri P
I use Telnet quite regularly (from the TSO command line) to get from one z/OS system to another. It doesn't matter that the system you are going from is referred to by you as a 'host' - in this case, it's just another telnet client. All colours, PFkeys, ISPF screen displays, scrolling etc

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Tonni J Ottosen
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Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
This is what Transparent Mode does. That seems to be the point, or function, I was missing. Still learning something new every day (forgetting something else to make room the new stuff :-) -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse --

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
George Thanks for putting the doubters right. The key is transparent and transparent mode. It is documented. Under the description, ironically enough, of the linemode parameter we find the following small print: quote Linemode Uses the line mode and prevents operation in the transparent

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Mason
Jim See my response to George. The point about your post was that you didn't go further than the USS messages which means you didn't go far enough. George did - and it seems you did before this post also. I'm glad we're all on the same page now! Chris Mason On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:45:50

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
What's this over 3270? Where did that idea come from? I just coined this term trying to describe that logging into a UNIX server from TSO telnet does bring you into line mode in UNIX. Probably a misnomer. I suggest we just forget about it ;-) And what's raw mode? When logging into a server

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Chris Mason wrote: Jim See my response to George. The point about your post was that you didn't go further than the USS messages which means you didn't go far enough. George did - and it seems you did before this post also. I'm glad we're all on the same page now! Chris Mason Sorry if

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Natarajan Mohan
TN3270 supports block mode from a TSO Client. If you are connecting to a remote host (MVS TN3270) you will successfully connect in transparent mode. but if you invoke TSO TELNET host-name (linemode then your session is connected in line mode and anything after that is also connected in line

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/6/26 Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, in order to answer the original question So who is right? Can I open a TN session to a host in another domain??? restated accurately as Can I create a TELNET connection using 3270 data stream from one Communications Server IP component - using the

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
to multiple stacks in our multiple security zones. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? Dave Please be more specific about

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? Jim The acid test is getting something like ISPF running having used the TSO TELNET command. I'm afraid just seeing a USS message 10 isn't sufficient. It's the TN3270 server which is responsible for presenting you with USS messages. You need to get past

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
isn't supported as you say. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Peurifoy Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TN3270 *from* a host?? Chris Mason wrote: Jim See my response to George

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chris Mason wrote: The acid test is getting something like ISPF running having used the TSO TELNET command. I'm afraid just seeing a USS message 10 isn't sufficient. It's the TN3270 server which is responsible for presenting you with USS messages. You need to get past this point in order to be

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:07 -0700, Gibney, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm already TLS from my workstation to the original logon of TSO, and then I at least am so far always using the Hipersocket connection, so I see no security lapse. I don't have any good reason to check it out