Re: TCP/IP to AS/400

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:35 PM 5/16/97 -0400, Neil Palmer wrote:
>Carl Galgano wrote:
>> 
>> >        If you don't want the QPADEVnnn names, you can simply rename the
>> >devices.  We did this and also created more devices to ensure that we
>> >weren't going to have any QPADEVnnn created.
>> >
>> >        If you create or rename, make sure the devices have the correct
>> >type and model number.  We had a few that somehow got changed to the wrong
>> >type, and then the CA95 couldn't change them back to the proper value for
>> >some users, possibly due to authority problems or other unknown cause.  We
>> >had to delete and re-create those devices with proper type.  We never found
>> >out why some users had problems and others not since they were all in the
>> >same group profile, but deleting and re-creating solved it permanently for
>> >some also-unknown reason.  The symptom of the problem was that we had a few
>> >programmers whose PCs refused to run the regular 5250 emulation but would
>> >run properly with "Graphical Access".
>> >
>> 
>> You may be able to rename the device descriptions, however, you can not
>> determine which user gets which device description when they start a TELNET
>> session.  This is similar to how virtual devices are assigned when using
>> Display Station Pass Thru between 2 AS400s over SNA.
>> 
>
>Except that with STRPASTHR you can select a specific device:
>
>STRPASTHR RMTLOCNAME(*CNNDEV)
>          CNNDEV(REMOTE400)  
>          VRTDEV(FRED01)       
>

Good point Neil, except there is no  (as far as I know) equivanent for
telnet.  Maybe someday.  Maybe I am ignorant or braindead, but what is the
big deal anyway, why do some of you guys out there need a correlation
between device and device name???
Carl

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