Hal Being specific about what "flavour" of BSC is rather important.
One solution to your problem may be a "box" which plays the role of a 2701 where there is a channel interface which is supported by BTAM or TCAM ,or another non-SNA access method, on one side and a serial line, say with a V.35 interface, over which one of the BSC protocols runs. You didn't tell us what your interface to the "mainframe" was nor did you tell us what "flavour" of BSC you needed to support. Regarding the "flavour" of BSC, in general there is point-to-point, involving contention, BSC, as used with the 2780 and 3780, and there is multipoint, involving polling, BSC as used with the 3271 and 3275 controllers. If whatever you are driving is one of these, or emulates one of these, it may help to tell us. Actually as Pat implies, it will help only if one of the "listers" has had a similar need for BSC support and can recommend his/her solution - or - one happens to know of a supplier of relevant BSC solutions. John McKown suggested Hydra which *may* support the BSC "flavour" you need. I may as well mention it: it always worried me that, when NTO provided its BSC support - somewhat later than the start-stop support if I remember well - it insisted that it supported only point-to-point contention BSC as required by the 3780. I had imagined that point-to-point contention BSC was an adequate description of the protocol but that insertion of "3780" seemed to imply otherwise. When you "purchase" a possible "solution" make sure you get it "on approval". <g> Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 07 December, 2006 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Bisync > On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:06:33 -0600, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >... > >I still have some 3745's and the maintenance contract is horrendous. I > >have no control over the far end, only my end. > > > >So, do I have any options? We are talking to Visara about their > >offering. Are there any with some experience with this or other vendors? > >... > > You didn't mention what kind of bisync device talking to what on the host. > Bisync 3270? Bisync RJE? Bisync NJE (if that still exists)? Bisync RYO? > Different answers for different needs. (And I don't think I have an > answer for any of 'em.) > > Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
