LOL! OS/390 "TWO" dot FIVE (OS/390 2.5 was around 1996 IIRC)
Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS's basis for TCP/IP Actually, it was OS/390 1.5, not z/OS 1.5. Too long ago. Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS's basis for TCP/IP Bob Would you care to supply some evidence for your contention? I find no trace of such an upheaval in the z/OS V1R5 Communications Server IP Migration and Exploitation manual: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B130/ On the other hand, while there are still components of the system which require the functions associated with Step 3, "Configure VMCF and TNF", of the configuration tasks. related to the dreaded Pascal API, you know you are still in the grip of the original ivory tower authors! http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B3B0/1.2.21.5 Chris Mason On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:07:22 +0000, Bob Shannon <bshan...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote: >>I believe that the "TCP/IP for VM" product which was ported to become the >>"TCP/IP for MVS" >product which became incorporated into the Communications >>Server product as the IP component >follows what is described as the >>"Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD" flavour of an >implementation of the >>Internet Protocol and related protocols such as TCP and UDP and so on. > >However, TCP/IP was re-written for z/OS 1.5. I don't know how much of the >original port remains. > >Bob Shannon >Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
