mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (06/27/90)
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a message asking if anyone knew of a
asynchronous 3270 terminal emulator that offered the functionality of
IBM's FTTERM (PC/HOST) software.
Several people replied saying that standard VT100 emulators should
work to connect to the protocol converter. However, it doesn't
because the protocol converter is not configured to do anything
other than the default color async 3270 emulation (as provided by
FTTERM), and reconfiguration was not looking promising (administrative,
not technical).
So I sat down and wrote my own equivalent of FTTERM. I and a co-worker
have been using it with few problems for a week now.
I am looking for others to help me test this program. It will run on
any Mac (Plus on up), supports the standard and extended keyboards,
and will work in color (basic) on color monitors. The program uses
the Connection Manager of the Communications Toolbox to make the
connection.
On the other end, an IBM 3708 or 3710 PA-8 asynchronous protocol converter
is required (or something compatible). We use this to connect to a 3090
mainframe running MVS (Roscoe, TSO, CICS, UCC7/CA7, etc. all work fine).
I am looking for others to test this program. If anyone else has this
configuration, I would appreciate hearing from you.
-Michael
p.s. If anyone needs help with the CommToolbox with Think C 4.0, let me
know. By now I'm getting good at it...
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