On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 13:01:56 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote: > >> Hello all, does anyone know of any software that allows access to VSAM, >> SEQ, CICS files from remote systems. I.E. distributed systems. How is the >> access done? Web service calls? MQ calls? > >For the latter, it may be a bit more difficult. We use MQ series and CICS. >We have some Windows Java applications which connect to MQSeries to run MQ >CICS transactions. The Windows application sends XML encoded requests to >CICS and receives an XML encoded reply. We also use CICS as an HTTP server >and a (sort of) REST model to do the same sort of work. Why both and not >just one? Schizophrenic developers, perhaps? There are probably many >different products on the market which expose a REST API for accessing z/OS >resources. I know that Rocketsoftware does. > For PS and PDS(E) files, z/OS NFS server and Solaris client has worked well for me. for UNIX files, Solaris or z/OS server and z/OS client likewise works well.
How distant is "remote"? Why is there so little interest in NFS? We began using NFS for cross-MVS sharing before HFS sharing became available; we never saw need to switch. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
