Mainframe fun

On 9/13/2014 3:08 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: I've been trying to get my IBM 3174 establishment controller (to which my IBM 3179 terminals are connected) communicating with the Hercules emulator over TCP/IP. Hercules is an IBM 370/390/z-Series emulator. I wanted a more immersive feeling of actually using a mainframe than using TN3270 emulators. They just didn't CUT it (little pun there). After much grumbling and pulling out what little hair I have left, I finally managed to get everything working as evidenced here: http://www.shiresoft.com/new-shop/Shiresoft/Mainframe_Fun.html The real challenge was getting the 3174 configured as there are literally 100s of configuration questions that need to be answered correctly. The configuration manual for the 3174 is 800+ pages and the questions from the configuration utility are of the form Q110: ___. You *really* need to read and understand how the 3174 is set up in order to do this right (along with filling out what seemed like 100 worksheets). The big breakthrough came when I figured out that the 3174 was complaining that I didn't have enough memory for the configuration I was specifying. It seemed odd, since I had 4MB of memory...the max on most 3174s (some could go as high as 6MB). After finally cutting the configuration down to the absolute bare minimum I was finally able to get the "Connection Menu" to show up which allowed me to select from the configured hosts. For those paying attention, the 399 on the 3174 status display is indicating that the SDLC link is not connected. I don't particularly care, so long as the ethernet and TCP/IP work. ;-) If there are others on this list that are trying to do the same thing and haven't made progress, let me know...the details are still fresh in my head. ;-) TTFN - Guy