Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 (Platform Software Release C.60.00) (30216-90269)

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Technical Articles
New Features for DTS/TIO Subsystem
The complete list of supported modem types with MPE/iX 6.0 is:
• US modem In Out
• European modem In Out
• Five wires modem
• US modem
• European modem
• None (no modem)
Data Length/Parity List Support
With MPE/iX release 6.0, you can now use NMMGR to configure the
two new parity types in the Host-based terminal, printer and host
profiles. These two new parity types are: 8 bits data length with even
parity and 8 bits data length with odd parity. These parity settings
were added in order to provide support for serial devices that need to
use these settings. Devices that would use these need to be able to send
and receive binary data and also need to check parity.
These two new parity types are only supported for the newer DTCs:
DTC 72MX, DTC 16iX, DTC 16MX and DTC 16RX. They are not
supported for the DTC 48 or older DTCs. The full list of supported
parity setting with MPE/iX release 6.0 is as given:
• 7 bit data length with even parity
• 7 bit data length with odd parity
• 7 bits data length with parity forced to 0.
• 7 bits data length with parity forced to 1.
• 8 bits data length with even parity.
• 8 bits data length with odd parity.
• 8 bits data length with none parity.
Number of stop bits
With MPE/iX release 6.0, you can now configure the number of stop bits
to be used for asynchronous characters in the host_based
terminal/printer profiles. The possible values are 1 or 2 stop bits. This
new configuration field will be supported for the new types of DTCs
only: DTC 72MX, DTC 16iX, and DTC 16MX.
Enable Flow Control
When TIO terminals, printers and host ports are created, one of the
features that can be configured is a parameter that is sent to the port
that determines the data flow control behavior between DTC port and
connection device.