John Thanks for the - implied - suggestion. I have subscribed to the supposedly regular update - I have received two so far! - from the redbook site for any redwhatevers which involve - supposedly since this is a matter of intelligent indexing - "z/OS". I'm hoping this will cover any which purport to touch upon the two components of Communications Server in some way.
I have contributed corrections to redbooks in draft status in the past but only by invitation and usually before open to (the) "hoi polloi". I'm hoping that being reminded of drafts appearing will be more productive than trying to maintain a regime of regular scanning of the web site. > ... even radical revision. I very much doubt a redbook "manager" would tolerate any sort of "radical revision". I'm sure the "We've invested too much already!" principle that MBA courses attack as illogical would prevail over any suggestion that the redbook all needs fresh research and rewriting! > As always, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. If the redbook is likely to be revised - as the "IBM z/OS V1Rn Communications Server TCP/IP Implementation" series is - it's worth contributing corrections. Otherwise it's necessary to get "in" at the draft stage, as you encourage. > As always, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. However, my objective in posting here was not to prompt probably impossible corrections to the original redbook but to warn all the good subscribers to the list that - as I have now confirmed rather than merely suspecting from one infelicity - that the sections which are intended to cover z/OS Communications Server, inexcusably exclusively the IP component, while they press nearly all of the right buttons, do so in a most ham-fisted way. I can't see these sections really being of any use whatsoever unless heavily qualified by someone who already happens to understand OSA-Express features, QDIO mode, dynamic XCF, HiperSockets and *all* the various flavours of VIPA and for what functions VIPAs can be used. As I mentioned in the response to Steve, the authors contributed nothing to their (legal) brief by mentioning whether or not the OSA feature would pass a packet with an unrecognised destination address to the Communications Server IP logic or just let it fall gently into the "bit bucket". So in essence, one interpretation of my contribution would be to say I have lit a candle in order to *illuminate* - rather than *curse* - the darkness! Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:58:43 -0400, John Gilmore <johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com> wrote: >There is a Redbooks [and Redpapers] website that is immediately >accessible from the IBM publications website. > >Immediately in point here, redbooks always appear first as drafts that >aqre open for comment, even radical revision. > >The first few of these drafts that are currently available to be read >and commented upon are: > >1. Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency >Draft Redpapers, last updated 7 Oct 2011 >2. Security on IBM z/VSE >Draft Redbooks, last updated 7 Oct 2011 >3. WebSphere Application Server V8 Administration and Configuration Guide >Draft Redbooks, last updated 5 Oct 2011 >4. Implementing an InfoSphere Optim Data Growth Solution >Draft Redbooks, last updated 5 Oct 2011 >5. DB2 10 for z/OS: Configuring SSL for Secure Client-Server Communications >Draft Redpapers, last updated 4 Oct 2011 > >As always, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. > >John Gilmore ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
