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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:09:31 EST
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- From: Ron Lane <RONLANE@YKTVMV.BITNET>
- Subject: re: IBM's MVS TCP/IP problems
- Lines: 46
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- Leonard Woren writes:
-
- >... By the time
- >MVS TCPIP is usable, MVS won't be around. Certainly not here. Lack
- >of a decent MVS TCPIP will do more to kill off MVS than cheap unix
- >workstations are doing.
-
- When I entered the TCP/IP group three years ago (specializing in
- the MVS side of things), all the talk was
- on its slow performance. That has been improved tremendously.
-
- Since that time we have added:
- 1. FTP Jes Support (submitting jobs and getting their output back).
- 2. FTP DB2 Support (performing the DB2 SQL by the server and getting
- the resulting tables back).
- 3. NDB - A DB2 server.
- 4. CICS sockets, a requirement from a great many shops, allowing them
- to use CICS's links to DB2, IMS, VSAM, etc as a generalizes MVS server.
- 5. Multitasking support for Sockets.
- 6. Offload, taking some of the TCP burden off of the mainframe.
- 7. SMF support.
- 8. Several user exits.
-
- I'm now testing a new FTP Jes feature where you can submit a job,
- and automatically get its output back when the job ends. I've also
- talked with Leonard Woren personally to assure him that IUCVMULT will
- soon be reentrant, and I think that will allow him to run his
- PIE/TSO. And this is all while supporting the product. I wouldn't
- call this 'abandoning the MVS environment'. It's obvious to me that
- MVS will be around for quite a while because of the billions of lines
- of code that work on it, and the trillions of bytes of data that
- is stored in it. Client/Server is the future, but most big companies
- are not eager to run quickly to put their 'mission critical' systems
- on a system that is not clear or worked out yet. At the
- committment of our group is to give the clients of the world access
- to the enormous functionality of MVS that was developed over
- many decades. The facilities, data, and programs that are on MVS
- should be available to the rest of the network world, easily.
- That is the committment of our group.
-
- We are always open to suggestions or constructive criticism, because
- we improve through feedback. But venting spleen does not
- create a healthy atmosphere for cooperation and dialogue.
-
- Ron Lane
- TCP/IP Development
-