Network Working Group                                       R. T. Braden
Request for Comments: 189                                       UCLA/CCN
Obsoletes: RFC 88 (NIC 5668)                                15 July 1971
NIC 7133
Category:  D


                    INTERIM NETRJS SPECIFICATIONS

  The following document describes the operation and protocol of the
  remote job entry service to CCN's 360 Model 91.  The interim protocol
  described here will be implemented as a production service before the
  end of July.  Two host sites (Rand and UCLA/NMC) have written user
  processes for the interim NETRJS, based on the attached document.
  Questions on it should be addressed to CCN's Technical Liaison.

  It is anticipated that the interim protocol will be superseded in a
  few months by a revised NETRJS, but the changes will be minor.  The
  revision will bring the data transfer protocol of NETRJS into
  complete conformity with the proposed Data Transfer Protocol DTP (see
  RFC #171).  The present differences between the DTP and NETRJS
  protocols are:

     (a)  The format (but not the contents) of the 72 bit transaction
          header of NETRJS must be changed to conform with DTP.

     (b)  The End-of-Data marker must be changed from X'FE' to X'B40F'.

     (c)  The initial "modes available" transaction of DTP must be
          added.

     (d)  Some of the DTP error codes will be implemented.


  No other protocol changes are presently planned, although some may be
  suggested by operating experience with the interim protocol.  When
  the revised protocol has been fully specified, it will be implemented
  with different ICP sockets than the interim protocol.  This will
  allow a site which wants to start using CCN immediately to convert
  his protocol at leisure.

  Some possible future extensions to NETRJS which have been suggested
  are:

     (1)  A 7-bit ASCII option of data transfer connections, for the
          convenience of PDP-10s.





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     (2)  A "transparency" mode for input from ASCII remote sites, to
          allow the transmission of "binary decks" (object decks) in
          the job stream from these sites.

     (3)  More than one simultaneous virtual card read, printer, and
          punch stream to the same virtual terminal.

  Comments on the utility of these proposals or others for your site
  would be appreciated.



                            Robert T. Braden
                            Technical Liaison
                                UCLA/CCN
                             (213) 825-7518



































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                      REMOTE JOB ENTRY TO UCLA/CCN
                          FROM THE ARPA NETWORK

                           (Interim Protocol)

A. Introduction

  NETRJS is the protocol for the remote job entry service to the 360
  Model 91 at the UCLA Campus Computing Network (CCN).  NETRJS allows
  the user at a remote host to access CCN's RJS ("Remote Job Service")
  sub-system, which provides remote job entry service to real remote
  batch (card reader/line printer) terminals over direct communications
  lines as well as to the ARPA Network.

  To use NETRJS, a user at a remote host needs a NETRJS user process to
  communicate with one of the NETRJS server processes at CCN.  Each
  active NETRJS user process appears to RJS as a separate (virtual)
  remote batch terminal; we will refer to it as a VRBT.

  A VRBT may have virtual card readers, printers, and punches.  Through
  a virtual card reader a Network user can transmit a stream of card
  images comprising one or more OS/360 jobs, complete with Job Control
  Language, to CCN.  These jobs will be spooled into CCN's batch system
  (OS/360 MVT) and run according to their priority.  RJS will automati-
  cally return the print and/or punch output images which are created
  by these jobs to the virtual printer and/or card punch at the VRBT
  from which the job came (or to a different destination specified in
  the JCL).  The remote user can wait for his output, or he can sign
  off and sign back on later to receive it.

  The VRBT is assumed to be under the control of the user's teletype or
  other remote console; this serves the function of an RJS remote
  operator console.  To initiate a NETRJS session, the remote user must
  execute the standard ICP (see RFC #165) to a fixed socket at CCN.
  The result is to establish a duplex Telnet connection to his console,
  allowing the user to sign into RJS.  Once he is signed in, he can use
  his console to issue commands to RJS and to receive status, confirma-
  tion, and error messages from RJS.  The most important RJS commands
  are summarized in Appendix D.

  Different VRBT's are distinguished by 8-character terminal id's.
  There may be more than one VRBT using RJS simultaneously from the
  same remote host.  Terminal id's for new VRBT's will be assigned by
  CCN to individual users or user groups who wish to run batch jobs at
  CCN (contact the CCN Technical Liaison for details).






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B. Connections and Protocols

  Figure 1 shows conceptually the processes and protocols required to
  use NETRJS.  The operator console uses a duplex connection under the
  Telnet third-level protocol (see RFC #158).  The actual data transfer
  streams for job input and output are handled over separate simplex
  connections using a data transfer protocol.

  We will use the term channel for one of these NETRJS connections, and
  designate it input or output with reference to CCN.  Each data
  transfer channel is identified with a particular virtual remote dev-
  ice -- card reader, printer, or punch.  The data transfer channels
  need be open only while they are in use, and different channels may
  be used sequentially or simultaneously.  NETRJS will presently sup-
  port simultaneous operation of a virtual card reader, a virtual
  printer, and a virtual punch (in addition to the operator console) on
  the same VRBT process.  RJS itself will support more than one reader,
  printer, and punch at each remote terminal, so the NETRJS protocol
  could easily be expanded in the future to allow more simultaneous I/O
  streams to each Network user.

  The remote user needs a local escape convention so he can send com-
  mands directly to his VRBT process.  These local VRBT commands would
  allow selection of the files at his host which contain job streams to
  be sent to the server, and files to receive job output from the
  server.  They would also allow the user to open data transfer chan-
  nels to the NETRJS server process, and to close these connections to
  free buffer space or abort a transmission.

  When a VRBT starts a session, it has a choice of two ICP sockets,
  depending upon whether it is an ASCII or an EBCDIC virtual terminal.
  An EBCDIC virtual terminal transmits and receives its data as tran-
  sparent streams of 8 bit bytes (since CCN is an EBCDIC installation).
  It is expected that a user at an ASCII installation, however, will
  want his VRBT declared ASCII; RJS will then translate the input
  stream from ASCII to EBCDIC and translate the printer stream back to
  ASCII.  This will allow the user to employ his local text editor for
  preparing input to CCN and for examining output.  The punch stream
  will always be transparent, for outputting "binary decks".

  It should be noted that the choice of code for the operator console
  connections is independent of declared terminal type; in particular,
  they always use ASCII under Telnet protocol, even from an EBCDIC
  VRBT.







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  NETRJS protocol provides data compression, replacing repeated blanks
  or other characters by repeat counts.  However, when the terminal id
  is assigned by CCN, a particular network terminal may be specified as
  using no data compression.  In this case, NETRJS will simply truncate
  trailing blanks and send records in a simple "op code-length-data"
  form, called truncated format.

C. Starting and Terminating a Session

  The remote user establishes a connection to RJS via the standard ICP
  from his socket U to socket 11 [sub] 10 (EBCDIC) or socket 13 [sub]
  10 (ASCII) at host 1, IMP 1.  If successful, the ICP results in a
  pair of connections which are in fact the NETRJS operator control
  connections.

  Once the user is connected, he must enter a valid RJS signon command
  ("SIGNON terminal-id") through his console.  RJS will normally ack-
  nowledge signon with a console message; however, if RJS does not
  recognize the terminal-id or has no available Line Handler for the
  Network, it will indicate refusal by closing both operator connec-
  tions.  If the user attempts to open data transfer connections before
  his signon command is accepted, the data transfer connections will be
  refused by CCN with an error message to his console.

  Suppose the operator input connection is socket S at CCN; S is the
  even number sent in the ICP.  Then the other NETRJS channels have
  sockets at CCN with fixed relation to S, as shown in the table below.
  Until there is a suitable Network-wide solution to the problem of
  identity control on sockets, NETRJS will also require that the VRBT
  process use fixed socket offsets from his initial connection socket
  U.  These are shown in the following table:

           Channel                        CCN Socket    Remote Socket
                                          (Server)      (User)

Telnet  / Remote Operator Console Input    S             U + 3 \
        \ Remote Operator Console Output   S + 1         U + 2 / Telnet
Data      / Card Reader #1                 S + 2         U + 5
Transfer <  Printer #1                     S + 3         U + 4
          \ Punch #1                       S + 5         U + 6

  Once the user is signed on, he can open data transfer channels and
  initiate input and output operations as explained in the following
  sections.  To terminate the session, the remote user may close all
  connections.  Alternatively, the user may enter a SIGNOFF command
  through his console; in this case, RJS will wait until the current
  job output streams are complete and then itself terminate the session
  by closing all connections.



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D. Input Operations

  A job stream for submission to RJS at CCN is a series of logical
  records, each of which is a card image.  A card image may be at most
  80 characters long, to match the requirements of OS/360 for job
  input.  The user can submit a "stack" of successive jobs through the
  card reader channel with no end-of-job indication between jobs; RJS
  recognizes the beginning of each new job by the appearance of a JOB
  card.

  To submit a job or stack of jobs for execution at CCN, the remote
  user must first open the card reader channel.  He signals his VRBT
  process to issue Init (local = U + 5, foreign = S + 2, size = 8).
  NETRJS, which is listening on socket S + 2, will normally return an
  RTS command, opening the channel.  If, however, it should happen that
  all input buffer space within the CCN NCP is in use, the request will
  be refused, and the user should try again later.  If the problem per-
  sists, call the Technical Liaison at CCN.

  When the connection is open, the user can begin sending his job
  stream using the protocol defined in Appendix A.  For each job suc-
  cessfully spooled, the user will receive a confirming message on his
  console.  At the end of the stack, he must send an End-of-Data tran-
  saction to initiate processing of the last job.  NETRJS will then
  close the channel (to avoid holding buffer space unnecessarily).  At
  any time during the session, the user can re-open the card reader
  channel and transmit another job stack.  He can also terminate the
  session and sign on later to get his output.

  The user can abort the card reader channel at any time by closing the
  channel (his socket S + 2).  NETRJS will then discard the last par-
  tially spooled job.  If NETRJS finds an error (e.g., transaction
  sequence number error or a dropped bit), it will abort the channel by
  closing the connection prematurely, and also inform the user via his
  console that his job was discarded (thus solving the race condition
  between End-of-Data and aborting).  The user needs to retransmit only
  the last job.  However, he could retransmit the entire stack
  (although it would be somewhat wasteful) since the CCN operating sys-
  tem enforces job name uniqueness by immediately "flushing" jobs with
  names already in the system.

  If the user's process, NCP, or host, or the Network itself fails dur-
  ing input, RJS will discard the job being transmitted.  A message
  informing the user that this job was discarded will be generated and
  sent to him the next time he signs on.  On the other hand, those jobs
  whose receipt have been acknowledged on the operator's console will
  not be affected by the failure, but will be executed by CCN.




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E. Output Operations

  The user may wait to set up a virtual printer (or punch) and open its
  channel until a STATUS message on his console indicates output is
  ready; or he may leave the output channel(s) open during the entire
  session, ready to receive output whenever it becomes available.  He
  can also control which one of several available jobs is to be
  returned by entering appropriate operator commands.

  To be prepared to receive printer (or punch) output from his jobs,
  the user site issues Init (local = U + 4 (U + 6), foreign = S + 3 (S
  + 5), size = 8), respectively.  NETRJS is listening on these sockets
  and should immediately return an STR.  However, it is possible that
  because of software problems at CCN, RJS will refuse the connection
  and a CLS will be returned; in this case, try again or call the
  Technical Liaison.

  When RJS has output to send to a particular (virtual) terminal and a
  corresponding open output channel, it will send the output as a
  series of logical records using the protocol in Appendix A.  The
  first record will consist of the job name (8 characters) followed by
  a comma and then the ID string from the JOB card (if any).  In the
  printer stream, the first column of each record will be an ASA car-
  riage control character (see Appendix C); the punch output stream
  will never contain carriage control characters.

  NETRJS will send an End-of-Data transaction and then close an output
  channel at the end of the output for each complete batch job; the
  remote site must then send a new RFC (and ALL) to start output for
  another job.  This gives the remote site a chance to allocate a new
  file for each job without breaking the output within a job.  If the
  user at the remote site wants to cancel (or backspace or defer) the
  output of a particular job, he enters appropriate RJS commands on the
  operator input channel (see Appendix D).

  A virtual printer in NETRJS has 254 columns, exclusive of carriage
  control; RJS will send up to 255 characters of a logical record it
  finds in a SYSOUT data set.  If the user wishes to reject or fold
  records longer than some smaller record size, he can do so in his
  VRBT process.

  If RJS encounters a permanent I/O error in reading the disk data set,
  it will notify the user via his console, skip forward to the next set
  of system messages or SYSOUT data set in the same job, and continue.
  In the future, RJS may be changed to send a Lost Data marker within
  the data stream as well as a console message to the user.  In any
  case, the user will receive notification of termination of output
  data transfer for each job via messages on his console.



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  If the user detects an error in the stream, he can issue a Backspace
  (BSP) command from his console to repeat the last "page" of output,
  or a Restart (RST) command to repeat from last SYSOUT data set or the
  beginning of the job, or he can abort the channel by closing his
  socket.  If he aborts the channel, RJS will simulate a Backspace com-
  mand, and when the user re-opens the channel the job will begin
  transmission again from an earlier point in the same data set.  This
  is true even if the user terminates the current session first, and
  re-opens the channel in a later session; RJS saves the state of its
  output streams.  However, before re-opening the channel he can defer
  this job for later output, restart it at the beginning, or cancel its
  output (see Appendix D).  Note that aborting the channel is only
  effective if RJS has not yet sent the End-of-Data transaction.

  If the user's process, NCP, or host, or the Network itself fails dur-
  ing an output operation, RJS will act as if the channel had been
  aborted and the user signed off.  In no case should a user lose out-
  put from NETRJS.

































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                               Appendix A

                    Data Transfer Protocol in NETRJS


1. Introduction

  The records in the data transfer channels (for virtual card reader,
  printer, and punch) are generally grouped into _transactions_ pre-
  ceded by headers.  The transaction header includes a sequence number
  and the length of the transaction.  Network byte size must be 8 bits
  in these data streams.

  A transaction is the unit of buffering within the Model 91 software.
  Internal buffers are 880 bytes.  Therefore, CCN cannot transmit or
  receive a single transaction larger than 880 bytes.  Transactions can
  be as short as one record; however, those sites which are concerned
  with efficiency should send transactions as close as possible to the
  880 byte limit.

  There is no necessary connection between physical message boundaries
  and transactions ("logical messages"); the NCP can break the "logical
  message" arbitrarily into physical messages.  At CCN we will choose
  to have each logical message start a new physical message, so the NCP
  can send the last part of each message without waiting for an expli-
  cit request, but a remote site is not required to follow this conven-
  tion.

  Each logical record within a transaction begins with an "op code"
  byte which contains the channel identification, so its value is
  unique to each channel but constant within a channel.  This choice
  provides a convenient way to verify bit synchronization at the
  receiver, and also allows an extension in the future to true "multi-
  leaving" (i.e., multiplexing all channels within one connection in
  each direction).

  The only provisions for transmission error detection in the current
  NETRJS protocol are (1) this "op code" byte to verify bit synchroni-
  zation and (2) the transaction sequence number.  At the urging of
  Crowther, we favor putting an optional 16 bit check sum in the unused
  bytes of the second-level header.  It is currently assumed that if an
  error is detected then the channel is to be aborted and the entire
  transmission repeated.  To provide automatic retransmission we would
  have to put in reverse channels for ACK/NAK messages.







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2. Character Sets

  For an ASCII VRBT, NETRJS will map ASCII in the card reader stream
  into EBCDIC, and re-map the printer stream to ASCII, by the following
  rules:

       1.  One-to-one mapping between the three ASCII characters | ~ \
           which are not in EBCDIC, and the three EBCDIC characters
           [vertical bar, not-sign and cent-sign] (respectively) which
           are not in ASCII.

       2.  The other six ASCII graphics not in EBCDIC will be
           translated on input to an EBCDIC question mark (?).

       3.  The ASCII control DC3 (the only one not in EBCDIC) will be
           mapped into and from the EBCDIC control TM.

       4.  The EBCDIC characters not in ASCII will be mapped in the
           printer stream into the ASCII question mark.

3. Meta-Notation

  The following description of the NETRJS data transfer protocol uses a
  formal notation derived from that proposed in RFC #31 by Bobrow and
  Sutherland.  (The NETRJS format is also shown diagramatically in
  Figure 2.)

  The derived notation is both concise and easily readable, and we
  recommend its use for Network documentation.  The notation consists
  of a series of productions for bit string variables whose names are
  capitalized.  Each variable name which represents a fixed length
  field is followed by the length in bits (e.g., SEQNUMB(16)).  Numbers
  enclosed in quotes are decimal, unless qualified by a leading X
  meaning hex.  Since each hex digit is 4 bits, the length is not shown
  explicitly in hex numbers.  For example, '1'(8) and X'FF' both
  represent a string of 8 one bits.  The meta-syntactic operators are:

          |       :alternative string
          [ ]     :optional string
          ( )     :grouping
          +       :catenation of bit strings

  The numerical value of a bit string (interpreted as an integer) is
  symbolized by a lower case identifier preceding the string expression
  and separated by a colon.  For example, in "i:FIELD(8)", i symbolizes
  the numeric value of the 8 bit string FIELD.





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  Finally, we use Bobrow and Sutherland's symbolism for iteration of a
  sub-string:  (STRING-EXPRESSION = n); denotes n occurrences of STRING
  EXPRESSION, implicitly catenated together.  Here any n >= 0 is
  assumed unless n is explicitly restricted.


4. Protocol Definition

      STREAM <-- (TRANSACTION = n) + [END-OF-DATA]

  That is, STREAM, the entire sequence of data on a particular open
  channel, is a sequence of n TRANSACTIONS followed by an END-OF-DATA
  marker (omitted if the sender aborts the channel).

      TRANSACTION <-- THEAD(72) + (RECORD = r) + ('0'(1) = f)

  That is, a transaction consists of a 72 bit header, r records, and f
  filler bits.

      THEAD <-- X'FF' + f:FILLER(8) + SEQNUMB(16) + LENGTH(32) + X'00'

  Transactions are to be consecutively numbered in the SEQNUMB field,
  starting with 0 in the first transaction after the channel is (re-)
  opened.  The 32 bit LENGTH field gives the total length in bits of
  the r RECORD's which follow.  For convenience, the using site may add
  f additional filler bits at the end of the transaction to reach a
  convenient word boundary on his machine; the value f is also
  transmitted in the FILLER field of THEAD.

      RECORD <-- COMPRESSED | TRUNCATED

  RJS will accept intermixed RECORD's which are COMPRESSED or TRUNCATED
  in an input stream.  RJS will send one or the other format in the
  printer and punch streams to a given VRBT; the choice is determined
  when CCN establishes a terminal id.

      COMPRESSED  <--   '2'(2) + DEVID(6) + (STRING = p) + '0'(8)

      STRING      <--   ('6'(3) + i:DUPCOUNT(5))
                        This form represents a string of i
                        consecutive blanks

                        ('7'(3) + i:DUPCOUNT(5) + TEXTBYTE(8))
                        This form represents string of i consecutive
                        duplicated of TEXTBYTE.






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                        ('2'(2) + j:LENGTH(6) + (TEXTBYTE(8) = j))
                        This form represents a string of j
                        characters.

  The first two alternatives above in the STRING production begin with
  count bytes chosen to be distinguishable from the (currently defined)
  Telnet control characters.  In a Telnet stream, the third count byte
  would not be needed.  This is irrelevant to the current NETRJS, but
  it would allow the use of compression within a Telnet data stream.

     TRUNCATED <-- '3'(2) + DEVID(6) + n:COUNT(8) + (TEXTBYTE(8) = n)

     DEVID(6)  <-- DEVNO(3) + t:DEVTYPE(3)

                   DEVID identifies a particular virtual device, i.e.,
                   it identifies a channel.  DEVTYPE specifies the type
                   of device, as follows:

                   t = 1:  Output to remote operator console
                       2:  Input from remote operator console
                       3:  Input from card reader
                       4:  Output to printer
                       5:  Output to card punch
                     6,7:  Unused

                   DEVNO(3) identifies the particular device of type t
                   at this remote site; at present only DEVNO = 0 is
                   possible.

     END-OF-DATA <-- X'FE'
                   Signals end of job (output) or job stack (input).




















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                               APPENDIX B

                    Telnet for VRBT Operator Console

  The remote operator console connections use the ASCII Telnet
  protocol as in RFC #158.  Specifically:

   1)  The following one-to-one character mappings are used for the
       three EBCDIC graphics not in ASCII:

              ASCII
             in Telnet                NETRJS

                 |                  [vertical bar]
                 ~                  [not-sign]
                 \                  [cent-sign]

   2)  Initially all Telnet control characters will be ignored.  In the
       future we will implement the Telnet Break facility to allow a
       remote user to terminate extensive console output from a
       command.

   3)  An operator console input line which exceeds 133 characters
       (exclusive of CR LF) will be truncated by NETRJS.

   4)  NETRJS will accept BS to delete a character, and CAN to delete
       the current line.  The sequence CR LF terminates each input and
       output line.  HT will be translated to a single space in RJS.
       All other ASCII control characters will be ignored.  NETRJS will
       translate the six ASCII graphics with no equivalent in EBCDIC
       into the character question mark ("?") on input.




















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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


                                  APPENDIX C

                               Carriage Control

  The carriage control characters sent in a printer channel by NETRJS
  conform to IBM's extended USASI code, defined by the following table:

           CODE                ACTION BEFORE WRITING RECORD

           blank               Space one line before printing
             0                 Space two lines before printing
             -                 Space three lines before printing
             +                 Suppress space before printing
             1                 Skip to channel 1
             2                 Skip to channel 2
             3                 Skip to channel 3
             4                 Skip to channel 4
             5                 Skip to channel 5
             6                 Skip to channel 6
             7                 Skip to channel 7
             8                 Skip to channel 8
             9                 Skip to channel 9
             A                 Skip to channel 10
             B                 Skip to channel 11
             C                 Skip to channel 12


























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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


                              APPENDIX D

                     Network/RJS Command Summary

Terminal Control and Information Command

  SIGNON          First command of a session; identifies VRBT by giving
                  its terminal id.

  SIGNOFF         Last command of a session; RJS waits for any data
                  transfer in progress to complete and then closes all
                  connections.

  STATUS          Outputs on the remote operator console a complete
                  list, or a summary, of all jobs in the system for
                  this VRBT, with an indication of their processing
                  status in the Model 91.

  ALERT           Outputs on the operator console the special "Alert"
                  message, if any, from CCN computer operator.  The
                  Alert message is also automatically sent when the
                  user does a SIGNON, or whenever the message changes.

  MSG             Sends a message to CCN computer operator or to any
                  other RJS terminal (real or virtual).  A message from
                  the computer operator or another RJS terminal will
                  automatically appear on the remote operator console.

Job Control and Routing Commands

  Under CCN's job management system, the default destination for output
  is the input source.  Thus, a job submitted under a given VRBT will
  be returned to that VRBT (i.e., the same terminal id), unless the
  user's JCL overrides the default destination.

  RJS places print and punch output described for a particular remote
  terminal into either an Active Queue or a Deferred Queue.  When the
  user opens his print or punch output channel, RJS immediately starts
  sending job output from the Active Queue, and continues this queue is
  empty.  Job output in the Deferred Queue, on the other hand, must be
  called for by job name, (via a RESET command from the remote opera-
  tor) before RJS will send it.  The Active/Deferred choice for output
  from a job is determined by the deferral status of the VRBT when the
  job is entered; the deferral status, which is set to the Active
  option when the user signs on, may be changed by the SET command.






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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


  SET             Allows the remote user to change certain properties
                  of his VRBT for the duration of the current session;

                  (a)  May change the default output destination to be
                  another (real or virtual) RJS terminal or the central
                  facility.

                  (b)  May change the deferral status of the VRBT.

  DEFER           Moves the print and punch output for a specified job
                  or set of jobs from the Active Queue to the Deferred
                  queue.  If the job's output is in the process of
                  being transmitted over a channel, RJS aborts the
                  channel and saves the current output location before
                  moving the job to the Deferred Queue.  A subsequent
                  RESET command will return it to the Active Queue with
                  an implied Backspace (BSP).

  RESET           Moves specified job(s) from Deferred to Active Queue
                  so they may be sent to user.  A specific list of job
                  names or all jobs can be moved with one RESET
                  command.

  ROUTE           Re-routes output of specified jobs (or all jobs)
                  waiting in the Active and Deferred Queues for this
                  VRBT.  The new destination may be any other RJS
                  terminal or the central facility.

  ABORT           Cancels a job which was successfully submitted and
                  awaiting execution or is current executing in the
                  Model 91.  If he cancelled job was in execution, all
                  output it produced ill be returned.

Output Stream Control Commands

  BSP (BACKSPACE) "Backspaces" output stream within current sysout data
                  set.  Actual amount backspaced depends upon sysout
                  blocking but is typically equivalent to a page on the
                  line printer.

  CAN (CANCEL)    (a) On an output channel, CAN causes the rest of the
                      output in the sysout data set currently being
                      transmitted to be omitted.  Alternatively, may
                      omit the rest of the sysout data sets for the job
                      currently being transmitted; however, the remain-
                      ing system and accounting messages will be sent.





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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


                  (b) On an input channel, CAN causes RJS to ignore the
                      job currently being read.  However, the channel
                      is not aborted as a result, and RJS will continue
                      reading in jobs on the channel.

                  (c) CAN can delete all sysout data sets for specified
                      job(s) waiting in Active or Deferred Queue.

  RST (RESTART)   (a) Restarts a specified output stream at the begin-
                      ning of the current sysout data set or, option-
                      ally, at the beginning of the job.

                  (b) Marks as restarted specified job(s) whose
                      transmission was earlier interrupted by system
                      failure or user action (e.g., DEFER command or
                      aborting the channel).  When RJS transmits these
                      jobs again it will start at the beginning of the
                      partially transmitted sysout data set or, option-
                      ally, at the beginning of the job.  This function
                      may be applied to jobs in either the Active or
                      the Deferred Queue; however, if the job was in
                      the Deferred Queue then RST also moves it to the
                      Active Queue.  If the job was never transmitted,
                      RST has no effect other than this queue movement.

  REPEAT          Sends additional copies of the output of specified
                  jobs.

  EAM             Echoes the card reader stream back in the printer or
                  punch stream, or both.





















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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


                 +---------------------------------+
                 |               RJS               |
                 +---------------------------------+
                      ^   |         ^  |  |
                      |   v         |  v  v
                   +------------------------------+
CCN -- Server      |                              |
                   |          NETRJS              |
                   +------------------------------+
                      ^   |          ^    |     |
                      |   v          |    v     v
                 +----------+      +---------------+
                 |  TELNET  |      |  Data  Xfer   | (server)
                 |  Server  |      |  3rd Level    |
                 +----------+      +---------------+
                    ^     |          ^     |     |
---------------------|-----|----------|-----|-----|-----------------
                O   |  O  |          |     |     |
                p   |  p  |         C|    C|    C|
                e I |  e O|       I h|  O h|  P h|
ARPA            r n |  r u|       n a|  u a|  u a|
                a p |  a t|       p n|  t n|  n n|
Network         t u |  t p|       u n|  p n|  c n|
                o t |  o u|       t e|  u e|  h e|
                r   |  r t|         l|  t l|    l|
---------------------|-----|----------|-----|-----|-----------------
                    |     |          |     |     |
                    |     V          |     V     V
                 +----------+      +---------------+
                 |  TELNET  |      |  Data  Xfer   | (user)
                 |  Server  |      |  3rd Level    |
                 +----------+      +---------------+
Remote              ^                ^     |     |
                   /  "Virtual       |     |     |
User              /    Remote Batch  |     V     V
                 /     Terminal"  +------------------+
                /                 |                  |
               V                  |     NETRJS       |
        +---------+               |     User         |
       /          |<------------->|     Process      |
      / Console   |               |                  |
     +____________|               +------------------+
                                      ^     |     |
                                      |     V     V
                                   (file) (file) (file)


              FIGURE 1. SCHEMATIC OF NETRJS OPERATION



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RFC 189              Interim NETRJS Specifications             July 1971


                +------+ +------+ +-----------+ +---------------------+
TRANSACTION <--> | X'FF'| |Filler| |Sequence   | | Data Length         |
                |      | | Count| |   Number  | |     in bits         |
                +------+ +------+ +-----------+ +---------------------+
                                                +------+
                                                | X'00'|  { RECORD } *
                                                |      |
                                                +------+

                                       <----  n text bytes  ------>
              +--+-----+   +--------+   +--------+        +--------+
TRUNCATED <--> |11|Devid|   | n (8)  |   | Text   | . . .  | Text   |
RECORD         |  | (6) |   |        |   | (8)    |        | (8)    |
              +--+-----+   +--------+   +--------+        +--------+


                         /                                         \
                         | +---+----+                               | *
                         | |110| n  |  (n blanks)                   |
                         | |   |(5) |                               |
                         | +---+----+                               |
                         |                                          |
              +--+-----+ / +---+----+   +--------+                  |
COMPRESSED<--> |10|Devid|<  |111| n  |   |Char-   |  (n replications |
RECORD         |  | (6) | \ |   |(5) |   |  acter |  of "Character") |
              +--+-----+ | +---+----+   +--------+                  |
                         |                                          |
                         | +--+-----+   +--------+      +--------+  |
                         | |10|  n  |   | Text   | . . .| Text   |  |
                         | |  | (6) |   | (8)    |      | (8)    |  |
                         | +--+-----+   +--------+      +--------+  |
                         \                                          /
                                                +------+
                                                | X'00'|
                                                |      |
                                                +------+


             FIGURE 2.  DATA TRANSFER PROTOCOL IN NETRJS





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