Thanks for the input folks. Brian: I have it working just fine, the setup was easy as you said - the reason I started this thread was because I couldn't understand why the limitations on the TCP port number and the philosophy behind the routing.
It seems pretty weird to me that IBM implemented ICC this way, but hey - I'm just a stranger on the internet :-) Regards, On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 06:52 Brian Westerman <brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > You can set up some of the ports to be local VTAM terminals, then you can > use VISTA (or any 3270 emulator) to connect into the ICC port 3270, and use > the LUNAME of the 3270 you defined as a local 3270 terminal. Since you can > have over 100 terminals per port, making them all os consoles is a waste, > so having a bunch of them as local 3270's that you can give to your carious > LPARs (and use EE to connect to the LPARs they are not connected to), is a > great way to use them. > > I like to make the first 16 to 32 devices OS consoles and the rest of them > local 3270s. > > So you are using TCP to get to them inside the ICC, but they are > technically local 3270 terminals. I think you can make some of them > printers if you want, but that seems like a waste. > > If you need more detailed directions, there are samples in the OSA express > 3 manual (and the newer ones). Or I can send you some screen shots of how > to set them up. Various sites I support are also z/114's so it's not a > problem. The entire time to set them up will probably take you on the > order of 15 seconds for each terminal. (if that) > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
