3270 Programmer’s Guide
Introduction
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• Full IBM 3268/87 and 4214 emulations including the APL feature
and all applicable RPQs (subject to restrictions of the ASCII
printers).
• Serial input or output (in case of serial connector)
• Access to all the special facilities on your Xerox printer from the
host.
• Automatic input sharing between Coax, Centronics and RS (in
case of serial connector) input.
• Coax FSL setup via Centronics.
• Support of up to 8 user strings of variable length can be transmit-
ted to the printer from the converter - automatically at power on
and before and after Local Copy from the host system.
• Up to 16 translate tables (8 for text and 8 for APL) which may be
modified as you wish. Each character from the host may be
transmitted to up to 12 ASCII characters.
• Flash PROM allowing the downloading of new firmware via the
coax or the Centronics port.
• Full backwards compatibility with existing products.
• Support of ida PSS software package
1.5. 3270 Protocol Converter Programming
The 3270 Protocol Converter uses a large number of internal setup
functions. See Chapter 2. Function Selection via the Line. When the
converter is installed and connected to a printer, you may have to
consider the use of these settings.
NOTE: (If running in FSL mode)'
The converter should be programmed to make your
decentralized printer as fully 3268/3287 compatible as
possible. This is particularly important in an SNA/LU1
environment.
