Re: Named (VRTDEV) devices in PASTHR

Burns, Bryan wrote:

Since I began leaving the workstation ID blank on some devices, we're having issues where these devices are using a workstation ID created specifically for the PASTHR from our parent in Japan. These devices are in controller QPACTL01 along with the QPAD* devices.

I thought that by recreating the PASTHR device names in the QVIRCD0001 controller our issues would disappear. But from what I could gather from the translated Japanese, our parent was not able to PASTHR when looking for VRT(abc) when the device was in controller QVIRCD001. Am I missing something or would this be the expected result?

I'm wondering what named device do for pasthru anyway. Our parent uses this command in a program:

STRPASTHR RMTLOCNAME(S1029110) VRTDEV(abc) RMTUSER(USERX) RMTPWD(xxxxxx)
What can specifying device abc accomplish? Is this a holdover from 90's era OS? From what I understand, the OS should be able to create the necessary device to fit the pasthru users workstation on the fly.

Bryan Burns
iSeries Specialist
ECHO, Incorporated
Lake Zurich, Illinois

QPADEV* devices are used for Passthru and Telnet/iSeries Access. It is my understanding that is a request for a session comes in without asking for a specific dev the system will look for a compatible already created and currently unused. If it doesn't find one then it will a. try to create a new QPADEV device or b. CHANGE a current QPADEV device. Maybe they are getting changed