Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!grebyn.UUCP!pat From: pat@grebyn.UUCP (Pat Bahn) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: DEC to IBM connectivity Message-ID: <9001162217.AA07475@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:17:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Pat Bahn Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 >In an article of <5 Jan 90 17:12:36 GMT>, pat@grebyn.com (Pat Bahn) writes: > > >I have an IBM 3270 teminal emulator for VMS that I need to check out. > >Does anybody have a validation suite, or test data or documentationon > From your message, it sounds like you have something old, or >for a different kind of interface. The 3270 emulation software was written by chris Mauro and robert furtado of DEC and the US Govt respectively. Does anyone know them? At any rate it was meant to implement 3270 across telnet. The telnet had hooks to support 3270. I've been given this code with a mission to change it to hook across a proprietary comms interface based on DECNET and to talk then to a host that will hook telnet to the IBM HOST. CLUDGE, but we have no other choice. We can't run TCP/IP on the workstations and we can't give the users direct access to DECNET. It's a pain, but that's where we are. My problem is I need to generate test data to check out the emulator software. I've got some but I really need a better way to test everything. If anyone has manual numbers that explain IBM protocols, I'd appreciate it. Thanks Pat PS The 3270 software was written in 1987, so it is kinda old. But it's govt property so we have to use it, we can't go buy a new COTS product. -- ============================================================================= Pat @ grebyn.com | If the human mind was simple enough to understand, 301-948-8142 | We'd be too simple to understand it. =============================================================================