jbeard@quintus.UUCP (Jeff Beard) (06/27/90)
> 1. What "converter" boxes are available to accomplish what I need for: > - BSC 3270 devices > - SNA 3270 devices > > 2. What experience have you had with these converters? > > 3. Do any of these converters allow the device to access multiple > hosts (e.g. traditional connects to "IBM" host PLUS TCP/IP, > NETBIOS, X.25 or OSI connect to other hosts? > 1) Renex supports a hardware converter that maps an ANSII rs232 device into 3270 full screen presentation AND behavior (ie PF keys + protected fields, et al) It comes in either BSC or SNA line driver formats with 8,16,32 ports, one or more of which can be configured for a printer. each port can be configured for 3278-{2,3,4,5} models. 2) EXCELLENT! Good relability, configurablity, and local service. 3) As the TP line is point-to-point multidropped and hard-wired, the IBMish end will be a single CPU. At Britton-Lee, ShareBase, we used A Pacific Bell System/85 phone system (you can use whatever) to 'dial' the Unix system which gave the ability of a SINGLE terminal to ACCESS multiple CPU nodes! eg: TERMINAL | phone-switch | ------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | RENEX Node-B Node-C Node-D Node-E Node-F Node-G | IBM mainframe with anyone being the IBM.Big.Blue node best wishes, Jeff -- ====== Opinions are the possession of the speaker and to assert otherwise is plagiarism. Jeff Beard, Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. e-mail ...!sun!quintus!jbeard or jbeard%quintus.com@sun.com
jbeard@quintus.UUCP (Jeff Beard) (06/27/90)
> 1. What "converter" boxes are available to accomplish what I need for: > - BSC 3270 devices > - SNA 3270 devices > > 2. What experience have you had with these converters? > > 3. Do any of these converters allow the device to access multiple > hosts (e.g. traditional connects to "IBM" host PLUS TCP/IP, > NETBIOS, X.25 or OSI connect to other hosts? > 1) Renex supports a hardware converter that maps an ANSII rs232 device into 3270 full screen presentation AND behavior (ie PF keys + protected fields, et al) It comes in either BSC or SNA line driver formats with 8,16,32 ports, one or more of which can be configured for a printer. each port can be configured for 3278-{2,3,4,5} models. 2) EXCELLENT! Good relability, configurablity, and local service. 3) As the TP line is point-to-point multidropped and hard-wired, the IBMish end will be a single CPU. At Britton-Lee, ShareBase, we used A Pacific Bell System/85 phone system (you can use whatever) to 'dial' the Unix system which gave the ability of a SINGLE terminal to ACCESS multiple CPU nodes! eg: TERMINAL | phone-switch | ------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | RENEX Node-B Node-C Node-D Node-E Node-F Node-G | IBM mainframe with anyone being the IBM.Big.Blue node best wishes, Jeff -- ====== Opinions are the possession of the speaker and to assert otherwise is plagiarism. Jeff Beard, Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. e-mail ...!sun!quintus!jbeard or jbeard%quintus.com@sun.com