Re: V4R2 function/feature missing?

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
>
>



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