Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!zooid!pondscum From: pondscum@zooid (Lima Bone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Term program needed Message-ID: Date: 26 Jan 91 17:22:06 GMT References: <42799@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: ZOOiD BBS Lines: 57 ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter) writes: > > >From: Eric Von Retherford > >Date: 25 Jan 91 15:06:23 GMT > > > >Greetings All, > > > >This semester I will be working on an IBM VM/CMS system. This system needs a > >term program that can send a "CLEAR" to get to the next screen and a "RESET" > >so that a lost program is cancelled. I have JR-Comm (unregistered, sorry) an > >Handshake 2.12. I have beat every key combination to find this sequence but > >no avail. Will VLT do it?? > > You have hit on one of the main difficulties with communicating with an > IBM mainframe, but you've only discovered a piece of the problem. The big > problem is that VM/CMS usually (not allways, because of layered terminal > handling programs) requires one to use an IBM 3270 terminal. This terminal > does a great deal of local processing before sending things off to the > IBM mainframe. There are 3270 emulators for PC's, UNIX machines, VMS > machines, etc, but as far as I know not for the Amiga. Now, if you can > get the VM/CMS machine to respond at all using one of these Amiga > terminal emulators than you are probably also going through another > terminal emulator you don't know about closer to the mainframe which > is probably mapping a VT100 onto an IBM 3270, in which case you just > haven't hit the right key combination to find PA1, and PA2. This is > how it works on the machine I'm using now which maps PA1 to ^P 1 and > PA2 to ^P 2. I know this is confusing, so the best way to handle > it is to call a system consultant and ask them what to do to talk > to VM/CMS with a VT100 terminal. > > On a side note, the VLT emulator is designed for connecting with > a VT100 -> 3270 converter, since you will notice that it has all > 20 PF keys and PA1, PA2 drawn on the bottom of the screen for use > with a mouse. It works really well for me over the modem which > connects to our IBM mainframe through a terminal conversion program. > > I hope some of this helps. > > -- Scott (ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu) Yes, but do you really need all of the PF Keys for the VM/CMS system? I work for IBM and use VM every day and I don't think I have ever used a PFkey higher than 12. Perhaps when I subscribe to a tools disk I use the pf 16 key or something, but there is an alternative in the 1-12 range. To survive VM with an amiga without all 24 function keys...you would probably need the following: PF3 PF4(for ridding yourself of unwanted mail!) PF5 PF6 PF7 PF8 PF9 PF10 PF11 PF12 Oh, I suppose you would need PF2 as well to use thw "BROWSE" Command but couldn't you type all of these commands that the PF keys represent on any VM/CMS command line? Lima