On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:58:01 +0000, Edward Finnell wrote: >It's been marked 'Corporate Confidential' for years. > What's the license status of IND$FILE?
If it was delivered before IBM licensed software, customers and others are free to use it anywhre, even Hercules. And IBM has no obligation to support or document it. If it was licensed to particular OS releases, no longer marketed, users on later releases may be in license violation. The client has been reverse-engineered for numerous platforms (e.g. Kermit). Might this violate a "no reverse-engineering" clause? (I believe it uses the 7171/Yale IUP convention of using an improbable sequence of 327x commands to put the client in data transfer mode.) Could IBM take legal action against any perceived violations? I believe that would be a bad PR move. What CCSIDs does it support? IBM doesn't want to discuss it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
