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AGILE 5250 ALLY Users Guide and ReferencePage 1-20
6 Alternate Host Modes
The mode selection tells the 5250 ALLY what to do with the data it
receives from the alternate host. This should be set to Transparent (the
default) except for diagnostic purposes.
0. IBM printer emulation.
1. SCS dump.
2. Xerox 275 twinax protocol converter emulation.
4. Transparent (default).
5. Hex dump.
To select a mode, press the MODE button on the 5250 ALLY front panel
until the LED reads 6. After two seconds, the LED will display an
underscore (_). Then press the MODE button until the LED displays the
number of the appropriate mode (0-5). After two seconds, the mode will be
changed and the unit will return to Normal Operating Mode.
7 Alternate Host Timeout
When the alternate host port has stopped using the printer port for a user-
configurable period, the 5250 ALLY considers the printer port available
for the twinax port. The timeout period should be as short as possible to
prevent too much time from being wasted between print jobs from the
different sources, but not so short that a job from one source could
interrupt a job from the other source.
The following timeout values are available from the 5250 ALLY front
panel. The timeout period may need to be increased when running
complex graphic applications that take time during printing to compute the
image. Some applications may require timeout values as large as one
minute.
0. 1 second
1. 5 seconds (default)
2. 10 seconds
3. 15 seconds
4. 30 seconds
5. 45 seconds
6. 1 minute