Don Leahy observes: >Ironically, in our shop it was the *Windows* guys who >demanded that we use file transfer rather than some sort >of messaging protocol to communicate between the mainframe >and their platform.
That's been known to happen. Sometimes it's an existential problem: if they don't know it exists, they won't ask for it. Sometimes it's an experiential problem: if that's the way I did it last time (10 years ago, 20 years ago....), then I'll ask for it again. Sometimes it's a political problem: if they get delivery in a form more likely to promote extra (probably unnecessary) work, both now and in the future, then that keeps a certain group of people busy. Sometimes it's all of the above. Again, I'm not wed to a specific protocol here. Not yet. The "best" solution might be a messaging protocol, or it might not. I'm keeping an open mind. Anyway, I'm still curious what the original poster's situation is. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
