Re: TCP/IP to AS/400

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl Galgano wrote:
> 
> 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

Because they have wonderful software that does things like create work
files/members based on WSID.

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