Xerox 3270 manual

3270 Programmer’s Guide Introduction • 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. -8-