Re: W1 died; workaround

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the insight.

In this situation we weren't ever getting signon display so authority 
can't be the issue.

We replaced the twinax console at 0,0 with a USB/Twinax 5251 emulator on 
a PC so now this is a moot point.

Regards,

Jerry

On 8/7/2025 9:58 AM, Jim Franz wrote:
> Jerry, have you checked the security logs to see if its an authorization or
> similar issue (for the virtual device to be recreated). At v5r4 i can't
> remember if *IOSYSCFG required.
> or ... if your profile creating the device to get it working, and a user
> profile not able to use - till you delete it?
> Jim Franz
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM Jerry Draper<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Customer has an old V5R4 AS400 with a twinax console - W1.
> >
> > W1 dumb terminal died and their software has some work files ending in
> > ?WS? hard coded to W1.
> >
> > We provisioned a PC with a 5250 emulation (TN5250e) session named W1 and
> > that works fine (for now).
> >
> > After they signoff the W1 virtual session goes back to "VARIED ON" as
> > expected.
> >
> > However when they later restart the emulated 5250 session it hangs
> > waiting for the session to be "allocated".
> >
> > Workaround is to vary off and delete W1 virtual device and restart the
> > 5250 emulated W1 session.
> >
> > Voila!  It works.
> >
> > How can we avoid this workaround?
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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