System information

Introduction

Network Station Manager program and selecting the LANG parameter

pull-down list).

• Emulator menu bar or pull downs, dialogue boxes, online help, keyboard

remapping, color mapping, record/playback, and so on, are now translated

into many languages (a list of available languages can be seen by

selecting the Language Setup Task in the IBM Network Station Manager

program and then clicking on the pull down list for the LC_MESSAGES

parameter).

• Operator Information Area (OIA) now includes a communication status

field, which may show some of the following messages:

- COMM655: Waiting for telnet option negotiation (normal to see this

temporarily displayed)

- COMM656: Initializing TCP/IP socket interface

- COMM657: Resolving host name of Telnet server

- COMM658: Initializing TCP connection for Telnet

- COMM659: TCP attachment has been lost

• Single Key Print

• Automatic Communication Error Recovery

• Graphics Print Support

• Display Name enhancements

• TN3270E

1.2.6 VTxxx Telnet Emulation

This new support allows IBM Network Station users to access systems which

require VTxxx clients. The VTxxx Telnet client supports Latin-1 character sets

for locales other than English in the host session windows. However, its MRI

(Machine Readable Information) is English only. In this context, English only

MRI means that anything outside of the actual host application supplied

content is in English. For example, the VTxxx help text and error messages

only display in English. In addition, the VTxxx client does not provide as many

functions as the 5250 and 3270 emulation clients. For example, the VTxxx

client does not provide a graphical keyboard or color remapping utility or a

Although it was available in the previous release, it is significant that

Network Station 5250 sessions can have static display names. More details

are available in the Network Station Manager or 5250 online help text.

Note