Ed, I design this stuff professionally, you need more than just an outside program..you need various authorizations on the security subsystem, incoming firewall....that's just for starters, to operator commands with running a batch process requires authorization....
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 7, 2012, at 4:50 PM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: > Greetings from the CABAL. Have you considered using UNIX services? I don't > know all that you want your product to do. But to communicate with the > mainframe, you can use SSH to send a UNIX command to z/OS and receive the > response back. This is basically simple "line mode" functionality. To me, > this is rather easy to implement if the "white box" is running UNIX or Linux > or MAC OS/X. It is more difficult with Windows because, IMO, Windows does not > "play nice" with others. > > Or you could just have a server running on the mainframe which uses TCPIP to > receive "commands" and return "replies" to your code. The format of these > "commands" and "replies" would be the "protocol" you designed for your > supplied server. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Mackmahon >> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:11 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Interfacing with the MainFrame >> >> Hi >> >> How would you prefer a product running on a server outside >> the mainframe >> will interface with the mainframe? >> >> Some Ideas i had: >> >> 1. Using a macro emulator that simulate a user which logon as >> a regular >> user, snap shot the screen display and parse the results >> on the open. >> >> 2. Using FTP exits in order to submit a job / moving a rexx >> to be ran under AXR etc... >> >> will this be a problem in your organization? >> >> >> Any other ideas would be appreciated... >> >> Ed >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
