On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> The half-duplex use of the 3270 is an application, e.g., TMP,
> restriction:  the VTIOC macros support a full duplex mode.
>

​Ah. Thanks. I don't know anything about VTIOC. I'll need to take a look at
it. ... A quick look at
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.istimp0/append.htm
shows that TSO still support non-3270 VTAM terminals. It might be
interesting to write a "3767" emulator (hum, that may just be telnet) to
have a UNIX session "logon" to a 3767 TSO session. Hum, I need to think
about this a bit. Not that I'm likely to actually do anything. My interest
in z/OS, and computing in general, is tending downward for various reasons.​



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> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Don't confuse the limitations of the TSO VTIOC for 3270 with the
> > limitations of the application using them. The klunkiness of the OMVS
> > command is because they didn't choose to avail themselves of the
> available
> > services.
> >
>
> The only deficit that I see in the OMVS command is that it is what I think
> of as "native" TSO 3270 whereas it should be, like SDSF, use ISPF display
> services when used when they are available. I've more or less gotten used
> to the "half duplex" use of the 3270 in TSO. What might be nice would be a
> way, in TSO, to "background" a TSO command like you can a UNIX command. Of
> course, I must remember that TSO was designed in the days of OS/MVT and is
> still more concerned with "resource consumption" rather that "user
> productivity".
>
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