HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

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Controlling 3270 Emulation
Controlling Display Sessions
Choose this when you have finished controlling display
sessions.
Enabling a Display Session
You can conduct 3270 emulation only on an active session (an enabled
session that is communicating with the host). To enable a session, use
the following procedure:
Step 1. Select a disabled session in the list box.
Step 2. Choose <Change Status>.
Enabling a session causes the Status message to change from Disabled
to Enabled. When the session is made the current session, the Status
message will change to SSCP, NVT, TN3270, TN3270E, or TN3287,and
when you have logged on to the host, to the name of the host application.
The session is made the current session automatically if it is the first
enabled session; otherwise, choose <Make Current>.
Motif If this is the first session enabled, the 3270 emulation display appears in
the current screen window. A new screen window is created for each
additional session you enable.
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Making a Session Current
The current session is the one you move to when you press Esc at the
main screen (or choose Return to Emulator from the File menu). You
must enable a session before making it current.
If a session uses a screen model that your terminal cannot display (for
example, if your terminal has a 24 x 80 screen and the session uses
Model 4 or 4E, which is 43 x 80), you can enable the session, but you
cannot make it the current session because it cannot be displayed on the
screen when you return to emulation. (You can still access the session
using a HLLAPI application, even though you cannot display it on the
screen.)
Motif The Motif program does not restrict the screen models that can be
displayed, so you can make any session the current session.