VTAM is not the culprit. It is TSO development and their firm conviction (20 to life, with no chance of parole) that the 3270 is a "half duplex" protocol so you cannot write to an 3270 output area while concurrently soliciting input. They should talk to the z/OS console DIDOCS people about that. Or grab the 3270 code that SMCS consoles (3270 VTAM consoles) use to run "full duplex".
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SNA future > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:48 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: > > > >*Re. Technote T1013032 * > > > >*https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg3T1013032* > > > >*(Switching From DB2 Private Protocol (PP) to DRDA Protocol > Question)* > > > >*... ... ... However SNA is no longer a strategic protocol and > customers are > >advised to start converting their applications to TCP/IP. ... ... ...* > > > >For sure, we all know that SNA is no longer the strategic network > >architecture. > > > >But such a statement from a major subsystem like DB2 is not > negligible as > >such. > > > Will it take VTAM with it? I understand VTAM is a major > culprit in the > dreadful terminal interaction of the TSO OMVS command/subsystem. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
