Ref: 10420010 Title: Release Notes: CS/1 SNA booting standalone Date: 6-10-87 Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1991. All rights reserved. Software Release SW/1-SNA Version 13000 June 10, 1987 Part Number: 86-0016-00 Revision 06 TO: CS/1-SNA Users FROM: Bridge Communications, Inc. SUBJECT: SW/1-SNA Version 13000 DATE: June 10, 1987 Enclosed is the SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette. This diskette is your distribution copy and should only be used to copy the system software onto a master diskette. The master diskette may then be used to update current working diskettes. Before you update your software, be sure that you are using EC/2 on the CS/1-SNA. SW/1-SNA Version 13000 no longer supports EC/1. Updating Software Bridge recommends the following procedure to update your system to SW/1-SNA Version 13000 without losing clearinghouse names (provided you are currently running SW/1-SNA Version 10000 or later). To perform the copy properly, the MCPU PROMs of your CS/1 or CS/1-SNA should be revision 1B or later. 1. Connect your terminal to the console port of the CS/1 or CS/1-SNA. 2. Insert the SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette in the disk drive of the CS/1-SNA, then press the Reset switch. 3. After the CS/1-SNA is finished booting, copy the software from the distribution diskette onto your SW/1-SNA Version 10000 (or later) master diskette using the following command: > co p 0 25C 4. The following message appears on your screen: Insert master and hit return key Follow the message instructions by pressing the return key. 5. If the read completes successfully, the following messages appear on your screen: > Reading ... OK > Insert copy #n and hit return key Follow the instructions. If the message "read error" appears instead of the message "OK", contact an authorized Bridge service representative for assistance. 6. Remove the SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette, insert the SW/1-SNA Version 10000 (or later) diskette into the disk drive, then press the return key. 7. If the copy completes successfully, the following messages appear on your screen: > writing ... verifying ... OK > copy completed 8. To copy the Sysgen program from the SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette to the SW/1-SNA Version 10000 (or later) diskette, type the following command: > co p 280 2b9 9. The system will prompt you for the master diskette. Remove the SW/1-SNA Version 10000 (or later) diskette and insert the SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette in the disk drive. 10. Repeat steps 5 through 7. 11. Remove the diskette from the disk drive and label this diskette "SW/1-SNA MASTER VERSION 13000". Store the distribution diskette in a safe place. Operation Instructions Refer to the Configuration Guide for detailed information on system generation parameters and complete system generation procedures. For the parameters not included in the Configuration Guide, refer to the SNA Support Guide. After the installation has been completed, boot the system diskette (SW/1-SNA Version 13000 diskette). If a switched line is used, also dial the SDLC line. The CS/1-SNA is now ready for operation. For easy operation, a network manager can define rotaries and clearinghouse names on the CS/1-SNA in remote mode from a terminal attached to a CS/1 or a CS/100. New Features The following features, which were not present in SW/1-SNA Version 12000 or earlier, have been implemented in SW/1-SNA Version 13000: 1. It can operate with EtherTerm/3270 Version 14000 or later. 2. The CS/1-SNA will synthesize an UNBIND command for an LU-LU session if the session already exists when a positive response is received. 3. It now supports the Read Modified All 3270 command. 4. On the SNA Emulation Level menu in the Sysgen program, a new option "Negative FMD response if no connection" is added. The default value is Support. Also, the Character set selection parameter has been replaced by the EBCDIC/ASCII translation table parameter, which is described in item 6 in this section. The SNA Emulation Level menu is as follows: SNA Emulation Level Menu 1. Negative Response selection No Response 2. LU status Report type selection LUSTAT 3. Host application logout support SUPPORT 4. Negative FMD response if no connection SUPPORT 5. Device Types 6. Default printers 7. Terminal emulation type 8. CS1-SNA banner message 9. EBCDIC/ASCII translation table A. IBM3270 Terminal/Printer Model Enter selection: The new option determines whether a negative response is sent from the CS/1-SNA to the IBM host when FM data is received by a terminal not connected to an LU session. This in turn determines whether a VTAMTM logon screen will be displayed after connection. The default value of this parameter is Support, which will result in a negative response. If you do not want the CS/1-SNA to send the negative response, select option 4 from the menu, and then change the value of the parameter to Nosupport. 5. The following terminal types are now supported: + Tandem 653x Table 1 describes the key correspondence between a Tandem 653x terminal and a display station. __________________________________________________________________________ | Table 1 Tandem 653x Key Correspondence | |_________________________________________________________________________| | | | Display Station Tandem 653x Keys Display Station Tandem 653x Keys| | Function Function | | | | PF1 F1 Right F14 | | PF2 F2 Left F13 or Backspace| | PF3 F3 Up F15 | | PF4 F4 Down F16 | | PF5 F5 Attention ESC-a | | PF6 F6 Backtab ESC-b | | PF7 F7 Clear ESC-c | | PF8 F8 Delete DEL | | PF9 F9 Device Cancel ESC-x | | PF10 F10 Duplicate ESC-d | | PF11 F11 Enter Return | | PF12 F12 Erase Input ESC-e | | PF13 SHIFT-F1 Erase EOF ESC-DEL | | PF14 SHIFT-F2 Field Mark ESC-m | | PF15 SHIFT-F3 Home ESC-h | | PF16 SHIFT-F4 Insert Mode ESC-i | | PF17 SHIFT-F5 New Line ESC-n | | PF18 SHIFT-F6 PA1 ESC-1 | | PF19 SHIFT-F7 PA2 ESC-2 | | PF20 SHIFT-F8 Print ESC-p | | PF21 SHIFT-F9 Reset ESC-r | | PF22 SHIFT-F10 System Request ESC-s | | PF23 SHIFT-F11 Update Screen CTRL-u | | PF24 SHIFT-F12 Toggle Last Line CTRL-t | | TAB ESC t | |_________________________________________________________________________| When you use a Tandem 653x terminal with the CS/1-SNA, note the following: 1. The terminal must be configured for Conversational mode. 2. When the CS/1-SNA prompts for the terminal type, select item 18 on the terminal type selection menu. 3. Several keys on the Tandem 653x terminal keyboard must not be used while the terminal is connected to a CS/1-SNA. These keys are listed below. If you press one of these keys accidentally, use the Update Screen (CTRL-u) to repaint the screen. .br;HOME .br;NEXT PAGE .br;ROLL DOWN .br;DEL LIN INS .br;CHAR INS .br;DOWN ARROW .br;LEFT ARROW .br;PREV PAGE .br;ROLL UP .br;CHAR DEL .br;UP ARROW .br;RIGHT ARROW .br;BACK TAB / TAB 4. The rightmost character on the last line on the screen (row 24, column 80) is not displayed. + Alternate VT220TM Table 2 describes the key correspondence between an alternate VT220 terminal and a display station. '' ___________________________________________________________________ | Table 2 Alternate VT220 Key Correspondence | |__________________________________________________________________| | | | Display Station VT220 Display Station VT220 | | Function Function | | | | PF1 PF1 Left Left Arrow | | PF2 PF2 Down Down Arrow | | PF3 PF3 Up Up Arrow | | PF4 PF4 Attention Select a | | PF5 Select F6 Backtab Select Tab | | PF6 F6 Clear Select c | | PF7 F7 Cursor Select Select l | | PF8 F8 Delete DEL | | PF9 F9 Device Cancel Select x | | PF10 F10 Duplicate Select d | | PF11 F11 Enter Return | | PF12 F12 Erase Input Select e | | PF13 F13 Erase EOF Select DEL | | PF14 F14 Field Mark Select m | | PF15 F15 Home Find | | PF16 F16 Insert Mode Insert Here| | PF17 F17 New Line Select n | | PF18 F18 PA1 Prev Screen| | PF19 F19 PA2 Next Screen| | PF20 F20 Print Select p | | PF21 Select PF1 Reset Select r | | PF22 Select PF2 System Request Select s | | PF23 Select PF3 Tab Tab | | PF24 Select PF4 Update Screen CTRL-u | | Right Right Arrow Toggle to 25th line CTRL-t | |__________________________________________________________________| When you use the alternate VT220 keyboard mapping, note the following: 1. The terminal must be set up for VT200, seven-bit Controls mode. This can be selected from the VT220 General Set-Up menu. 2. When you use the alternate VT220 keyboard mapping, you should select item 17 from the CS/1-SNA terminal selection menu. 6. The ASCII-to-EBCDIC and EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation tables have been expanded to contain 256 entries. You can sysgen these tables to perform the translation using this procedure: 1. Follow the instructions in the Configuration Guide to run the Sysgen program on the CS/1-SNA. 2. Select the SNA Emulation Level Parameters option from the SNA Parameters menu. 3. The SNA Emulation Level menu appears on the screen. Note that the Character Set Selection option has been replaced by the EBCDIC/ASCII Translation Table option. The default translation tables are for the U.S. character set. Select the EBCDIC/ASCII translation option. The screen will display the three sub-options as follows: 0. Reset EBCDIC/ASCII translation table. (U.S.A. character set) 1. View/Modify EBCDIC to ASCII translation table. 2. View/Modify ASCII to EBCDIC translation table. 4. Option 0 resets both the EBCDIC-to-ASCII and ASCII-to- EBCDIC translation tables to DEFAULT. Option 1 displays the EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation table, which is followed by this prompt: Enter row and column (low limit=0x00, hi limit=0xff):0x If you need to change a value in the table, enter the address of the value (the row and column numbers). Then press the return key. The old ASCII value at that address will be displayed. When a prompt for the new value appears, enter the new value. Option 2 is similar to option 1, except that the translation table is ASCII-to-EBCDIC instead of EBCDIC-to- ASCII. The following is an example showing how the tables are modified when the British character set is used. Because it is for illustrative purpose only, the values you enter in the translation tables can be different from the ones provided below. All values used in the example are in hexadecimal. ___________________________________ | EBCDIC-to-ASCII Translation | |__________________________________| | | | EBCDIC ASCII | | | | 4A 24 | | 5B 23 | |__________________________________| In this example, the British character set is used. The user, therefore, wants the characters not in the U.S. character set to be translated. The user enters "4A" as the address of the value in the EBCDIC-to-ASCII table that needs to be changed. This address is actually the EBCDIC value of the "cent" sign, which is not available in the U.S. character set. The user then enters "24" as the new value. This value is the ASCII code for the character that will be displayed by an ASCII terminal when the EBCDIC code for the "cent" sign is sent from the host to the CS/1-SNA. The ASCII character, to which the "cent" sign will be translated, is "$". The user chooses another symbol to represent the "cent" sign because there is not an equivalent of this sign in the ASCII character set. When you modify your translation table, you are not required to enter "24" as the new ASCII value for the "cent" sign. For example, if you want a question mark (?) to represent the "cent" sign on the ASCII terminal, you should enter "3F" as the new value. Next, the user enters "5B" as the address, which is the EBCDIC code for "$". Then "23" is entered as the new value. As a result, the ASCII character "#", which has ASCII value 23, will appear on the terminal when the EBCDIC code for "$" is sent from the host to the CS/1-SNA. Similarly, the entries in the ASCII-to-EBCDIC table can be changed to provide the same mappings, which are shown in the following chart. The address now represents the ASCII code for the character entered from an ASCII keyboard, and the new value entered by the user represents the EBCDIC code that will be sent to the host from the CS/1-SNA.'' ___________________________________ | ASCII-to-EBCDIC Translation | |__________________________________| | | | ASCII EBCDIC | | | | 23 5B | | 24 4A | |__________________________________| Compatibility SW/1-SNA Version 13000 operates with the following products and software releases: .br;CS/1 running SW/1-A/BSC/SDLC Version 20000 or later .br;CS/1-HSM running SW/1-HSM Version 12000 or later .br;CS/100 running SW/100-A/BSC Version 15000 or later .br;CS/200 running SW/200 Version 20000 or later .br;IVECS running SW/IVECS-A Version 10000 or later .br;GS/1 running SW/1-X.25 Version 14000 or later .br;GS/3 running SW/3 Version 14000 or later .br;NCS/1 running SW/1-NCS Version 10000 or later .br;NCS/150 running SW/150-NCS Version 10000 or later .br;PC running EtherTerm Version 12000 or later .br;PC running EtherTerm/3270 Version 14000 or later In order for the SIO-3270 to support the extended VT100TM mode when it works in conjunction with the CS/1-SNA, the CS/1-SNA must run SW/1-SNA Version 12000 or later. Table 3 illustrates the software and firmware compatibility for SW/1-SNA Version 13000. '' ______________________________________________________________ | Table 3 Software/Firmware Compatibility | |_____________________________________________________________| | | | | | Product | Software | Firmware | |_________|_______________|___________________________________| | | | SIO | MCPU | EC/2 | | | | | | | | CS/1-SNA| SW/1-SNA | M1SYNC 1C| M1MMON 1B| M0EDL2 0A| | | Version 13000| or later | or later | or later | |_________|_______________|___________|___________|___________| In order for the 512K EC/2 to work properly in the CS/1-SNA, the MCPU PROMs must be M1MMON Rev. 01K or later and the EC/2 PROMs must be M0EDL2 Rev. 01A or later. Bugs Fixed The following problems, which were present in SW/1-SNA Version 12000, have been fixed in SW/1-SNA Version 13000: 1. Painting the screen of a VT100 terminal now requires less time. 2. The CICSTM printer no longer gives an extra form feed. 3. The logon screen on VTAM is now displayed after connection if the sysgen parameter "Negative FMD response if no connection" has the proper value. 4. The clear key now functions properly. 5. The SPP EOM flag is now always set for compatibility with the GS/1. 6. If you repeatedly type CTRL-u to repaint the screen, the CS/1-SNA will no longer crash. 7. The tab key now works properly on wide-screen terminals. 8. In the past, any non-printing character sent from the host to the terminal was sent as a null character instead of a blank. This caused improper cursor movement. The problem has been fixed. Limitations SW/1-SNA Version 13000 has the following limitations: 1. The intensity attribute is not supported in VIP 7814TM and VIP 7305TM terminal emulation. 2. There is no command available to disable the wrap-around feature in the host terminal mode of the Xerox 820TM. Instead, the screen is advanced one line to the next screen. 3. A beep sound is always generated by the VIP 7201TM when the screen is cleared. Procedure to Sysgen SW/1-SNA Version 13000 Refer to the Configuration Guide for the procedure to sysgen SW/1-SNA Version 13000. Memory Dump Procedure If the CS/1-SNA crashes for any reason, you should follow the procedure described in the Network Management Guide to obtain a memory dump. Documentation The current manuals for the CS/1-SNA are listed below: + Connection Service User's Guide (8/86) Part Number: 09-0063-01 + Series/1 Installation Guide (11/86) Part Number: 09-0022-05 + Network Management Guide (1/87) Part Number: 09-0067-01 + Configuration Guide (1/87) Part Number: 09-0093-00 + SNA Support Guide (3/87) Part Number: 09-0045-01 If you have any questions, please contact an authorized Bridge service representative for assistance. Trademarks .br;IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. .br;CICS and VTAM are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. .br;VIP 7814, VIP 7305, and VIP 7201 are trademarks of Honeywell Communications Systems, Inc. .br;VT100 and VT220 are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. .br;Xerox 820 is a trademark of Xerox Corporation.