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Preston, On V3R2 this still gives you the display - attributes, characters, etc...- but on V3R7 you get a screen about "No Longer Available" or some such. I would assume that has been dropped for all RISC systems. In fact almost all the functions off the TestRequest menu are no longer available. Roger Vicker, CCP Preston Sights wrote: > To anyone interested, > > >From the dawn of time the S/3X and S/40 have had a > CE test tool that allows workstation functionality testing. > > A customer running V4R2 told me that this function > did not work for him and I was wondering whether IBM > has taken out this diagnostic function. > > You can access it from a Sign-on screen prompt by pressing > the TestRequest function (usually a Cmd-Backspace keystroke > combination) or while signed on execute "CALL QARDRIVE" > from a command line. (don't interrupt your current work to > call qardrive as it will sign you off when it ends! - just do it > from a menu with no other work in down levels). > > My V4R2 system is still in the order process. Could someone > that has V4R2 install give it a test and tell me whether > option 1 "display verification" works for them? (this is a > testing tool and is non-destructive -- not like STRSST > which you can do -bad- things with). It will, however, > sign you off the system when exiting the function. > > Any comments welcome. Thanks for any time spent in > my bothersome question. > > Best regards, > Preston > > Preston Sights > wps@synapse.com > Synapse Communications, Inc. > > "The American Republic will endure until the day > Congress discovers that it can bribe the public > with the public's money." -- Alexis de Toucqueville > > -- *** Vicker Programming and Service *** Have bits will byte *** Youth, a habit of hers so long she couldn't part with it. +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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