On that note, I'd suggest Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. You can always set things up in WebSphere(apache even, perhaps?) with CGI and use AJAX to pass messages, should be client independent even.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Craddock Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 4:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame So basically, you're planning to create a product and you want us to describe how to do it? Sent from my iPad On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Ed Mackmahon <dropip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks for your answers. > > Let me provide some more information > > I intend that the interface will logon to the mainframe and issue some > operator commands, read some members etc... gather information and > send it to the open systems server for further analysis. > > The user which will be used for logon to the mainframe will have > specific RACF/TSS/CA1 display only authorities and the server is on the > organization intranet not an out side server. > > Having that, I am still looking for the preferred way for interfacing > in a way that most organization will have no problem to authorize and > using most common services available on most organizations (don't want > to impose implementing other services as a preq) > - that was the reason I was thinking on FTP and Rexx server... > > Any other comments / Ideas ? > > Thanks > > 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
