X Window System interface in the MVS environment: Identifying the target display

The user_id.XWINDOWS.DISPLAY data set is used by the X Window System to identify the host name of the target display.

The following is the format of the environment variable in the user_id.XWINDOWS.DISPLAY data set:


>>-host_name:target_server--+----------------+-----------------><
                            '-.target_screen-'

The environment variable in the user_id.XWINDOWS.DISPLAY data set contains the following values:

Value: Description
host_name: Specifies the host name or IP address of the host machine on which the X Window System server is running.
target_server: Specifies the number of the display server on the host machine.
target_screen: Specifies the screen to be used on the same target server.

Notes:

You should be aware that the userid.XWINDOWS.DISPLAY data set cannot contain sequence numbers.
For information about identifying the target display in z/OS UNIX System Services see, Identifying the target display in z/OS UNIX System Services.