If I got it right, MFN thinks that it has attached a DASD, but instead of I/O to a real DASD, it writes and reads from a file on PC or Linux using TCP/IP.
I once asked how it was possible to fake attaching a device like tape or DASD and how was it done. I got a one word answer: STARTIO I wasted more than an hour digging through IBM docs looking for it, and it wasn't until I asked on this list did someone explain it to me. Then I found the undocumented macro. Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Some tests with MFNetDisk PRO In <77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343135c8...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>, on 06/22/2011 at 11:18 AM, Bill Fairchild <bi...@mainstar.com> said: >I may have missed a post or two lately. The original context was Shai's software, which AFAIK uses TCP/IP to communicate between the PC and z sides. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
