Chapter 4 - Tn3270 Sessions; Checking The Tn3270 Characteristics At Your Port; Figure 4-1 A Show Port Telnet Characteristics Display Set For Tn3270 Connections - SynOptics 3395 Using Manual

You can establish sessions over the LAN with an IBM host through the terminal server if the host has a
Telnet server that supports the TN3270 protocol. When you log on to the IBM host, the terminal server
software redefines the functions of the keys on your terminal's keyboard to emulate those of an IBM 3270
Model 5 or Model 2 display station. This chapter includes these topics:
•

Checking the TN3270 characteristics at your port

• Establishing a TN3270 session with an IBM host
• Using hot keys
• Keyboard maps
Checking the TN3270 Characteristics at Your Port
Before you attempt to establish a connection with an IBM host, check the settings of the TN3270
characteristics at your port with the SHOW PORT TELNET CHARACTERISTICS command. This
display shows the following information:
• The device your terminal emulates once you log on to the IBM host. The terminal server software
includes the VT100, VT220-7, VT220-8, and ANSI device types, but the network manager at your site
may have created other types.
• The translation table for the language your port uses during the TN3270 session.
Figure 4-1 shows a SHOW PORT TELNET CHARACTERISTICS display with typical settings for the
TN3270 characteristics. The display at your port may be different.
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Abort Output Character:
Attention Character:
Default Port:
Echo Mode:
Erase Keystroke Character:
Erase Line Character:
Interrupt Character:
Terminal Type
Tn3270 TranslationTable
Enabled Characteristics:
Tn3270 EOR, Tn3270 XtdAttrs
Figure 4-1. A SHOW PORT TELNET CHARACTERISTICS display set for TN3270
connections
In Figure 4-1, the TN3270 translation table in column one is set to USENGLSH, which is the default
setting for this characteristic. The TN3270 device in column two is set to VT220-7, but the setting at your
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None Newline:
^W Newline Filtering
23 Query Character:
Remote Remote Port:
None Synchronize Character:
^K Transmit:
None Binary Session Mode:
None Tn3270 Device
USENGLSH Tn3270 printer port
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CR/NULL
None
None
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None
Immediate
PASTHRU
VT220-7
Any
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