On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 05:28:00PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
> I'm going for the bonus points: NJE/RJE. I was just reading on this by
> accident while working on a tool to do a JES3 to JES2 migration (JOBs, not
> the sysprog work, not that far into AI yet ;-) ).
UCLA/Mail (in it's day) sent and received mail from JES2 via SNA/NJE.
The code is available, I don't know if it would still work.
During development I had the NJE protocol book and, of course,
the source to JES2. There was a "problem" with JES2 not
accepting data I sent formated as the book said. I looked at the
JES2 source and it was clearly not in agreement with the book.
I called IBM with the disagreement between their protocol book and the
JES2 code. This went nowhere as about expected. After going around a
bit, my final question was (thinking that SNA/NJE was IBM's main path,
and not being a JES3 shop):
Well then how does JES3 do it?
The answer was JES3 didn't (at that time) do SNA/NJE.
I changed my code to produce something JES2 would accept...
PS: Another site at UCLA was JES3. The JES3 lack of NJE was circumvented
by having their UCLA/Mail connect to our JES2 via SNA. This got
them both local email and email to Bitnet and the Internet.
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