Re: Bug busting session next week.

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> > The latest versions of IBM Client Access Express will work out which
> > session name to use if the first one isn't available.  My PC is
> > configured for a session name of "+&COMP%=", which tries "EVANSCS1",
> > "EVANSCS2", etc. until one of them works.  It would be nice to be able
> > to do this in tn5250 too.
> 
> I'm not sure we have the ability to do this... this might be one of those
> things CA uses a different service (other than tn5250) to do.  I beleive
> that if we try to connect but the device is already in use, the session
> just hangs (e.g. it exists as if it were normal, but doesn't send any data
> to user).

The new TN5250E spec discusses how to handle this.  I was just too lazy at
the time to implement it. ;-)  Shouldn't be too hard.  I'll handle it if
nobody else gets to it first.

Mike

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