Chapter 6. Remote Services; Remote Upload/Download - IBM Professional Series User Manual

Chapter 6. Remote Services
Remote Upload/Download
This chapter tells you how to use the VM/PC Remote
Services to access a remote VM system. VM/PC provides
Remote Services that enable you to use the resources of a
remote VM system in a number of ways. With the 3277-2
Coaxial Connection, your VM/PC will appear as a 3277
terminal to the remote VM system. This enables you to use
the VM/PC as a 3277-like terminal and, in conjunction with
the VM/PC Remote Services Program, provides you with
the functions described below.
With the 3277-2 Coaxial Connection, VM/PC provides the
following services:
1. Remote 3277 Session - This is the ability to LOGON to
a remote VM system. You can use a Remote 3277
Session concurrently with a Local 3277 Session (for
example, while you are editing a local file in the Local
Session you can be compiling a program in parallel on
the Remote Session). We describe the Remote 3277
Session in greater detail in the following section.
2. Remote Minidisks - When you are in a Local Session,
you can LINK and ACCESS any CMS format minidisk
that exists on the remote VM system that you are
connected to (assuming you know the appropriate
minidisk addresses and passwords). Even though these
disks are not local to you, both you and your
applications can utilize these disks as if they were in fact
local.
3. Remote Files - When you have linked to, and accessed,
remote minidisks, you can access files on those disks as
if the files were indeed local to your VM/PC.
4. Remote Printers - The Remote Services program allows
you to use your remote VM system printers as VM/PC
printers. For example, if your installation has defined
Class K as the print class for an IBM 3800 printer, then
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