Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: VTAM Base Implementation in VM Message-ID: <2775@splut.conmicro.com> Date: 20 Jul 89 21:07:34 GMT References: <8907181349.AA21623@rice.edu> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 37 In article <8907181349.AA21623@rice.edu> Eric Job writes: >(1) Concerning the system connection block at the lower left of the > screen, I was under the impression that the little block there > (beside the square-4 and the little-A) would contain a little > stick-figure man while in VTAM. [...] This is only true for SNA terminals (those with a little B instead of a little A). Non-SNA 3270s are always solid-box. >(2) I would like to customize in my USSTAB message 10 so I can > design a logo screen. I thought that I was doing this right, > but nothing ever displays. I have this in my VTAMUSER LOADLIB, > the LOADLIB is globalled, the USSTAB= parameter of the LOCAL > MACRO for the terminal points to the table...but still no > message 10. So I might be missing something. Any ideas? About all I can add is that the USSTAB is only loaded when a major node is activated and no other active major node references the desired table. About the only way I've found to assure that is to take the VTAM machine down and back up. >(3) I couldn't find any documentation that told me what to expect > while operating in VTAM mode. I've discovered SYS REQ and > can LOGON APPLID(VM) and LOGOFF APPLID(VM) and so forth, but > if there's a document that explains what-does-what here, I'd > like to see it. The only commands here are either those in your USSTAB or those that USSTAB commands can be mapped to via USSCMD processing. I don't recall that I've ever seen a concise description here either; I'd start in the section of the VTAM docs that describes USS tables. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- internet: jay@splut.conmicro.com | "He's T*d, Jim."-Richard "Bones" Sexton