Vince Does z/OS run as a "guest machine" of your VM system?
If it does, get your VM systems programmer to sort out the unit record devices in the directory entries of your - presumed - CMS virtual machine and the z/OS virtual machine so that files can be exchanged between the two in the time-honoured way. As you suggested, you may also have to define the unit record devices to z/OS and JES2. Probably my last project actually involving submitting jobs using card decks stacked in the card reader and impatiently standing by the printer window was in early 1976. With VM you just do the same thing logically with commands and editors/browsers. If your z/OS system and your VM system run in separate LPARs - on the same or different physical machines (CECs) - then you can use NJE between, typically, JES2 on z/OS and RSCS on VM. You can run NJE either over an IP network - a relatively recent addition (2005) - as an NJE transport, an SNA network or a CTC connection[1]. In the first case, you will need the IP product or product component to be running in both z/OS and VM. In the second case, you will need the SNA product or product component (VTAM) to be running in both z/OS and VM. In the third case, you will need to set up a channel-to-channel connection of the old sort I believe. "You pays your money and you takes your choice!" Obviously the IP option is using the same transport as your existing FTP and for that reason you will want not to bother with that one. The following document describes NJE: Network Job Entry Formats and Protocols, SA22-7539-02: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HAS2A620 Having indicated whether or not your systems are co resident on a VM base and, in the latter case, NJE, whether you prefer SNA or CTC, we can perhaps help you further - and perhaps worry a bit more about userids! Chris Mason [1] In days gone by, there was also binary synchronous communication (BSC) as an NJE transport. Unless you happen to have typically a 2701 control unit - of blessed memory - connected to each system with a suitable communication facility between them, you won't be all that interested in this option! On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:50:49 -0600, Vince Getgood <vincent.getg...@xchanging.com> wrote: >Hi all, and a happy and (un)eventful new year to you all. > >One of our sysprogs has come to me with a question, and I think I know the >answer, but wanted to check my thinking. > >We use FTP to submit jobs to a z/OS guest from VM, but he would like to set >up a mechanism that does not rely on TCP/IP being available. > >It's been a loooong time since I did anything under VM, but I THINK we need >to define a card reader to z/OS using HCD, then point to it in JES parms [RDR >(1) UNIT=xxxx), and then use that from VM. > >How did I do? > >Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
