I'm pretty sure it's not a rumor. I believe it's also used for any type of "master/slave" type support ... even z/OS to z/OS.
JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 03:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: s/VM tape sharing with z/OS via RMM > So the requirement keeps coming down to writing our own interface between > VM:Tape and DFSMSrmm - not a trivial effort. But if someone has already > done it, or gotten part way down the slope, perhaps we could share ideas. Rumor has is that a IP-based interface was added to at least the z/OS DFSMS to allow remote access for shared libraries with pSeries boxen; I wonder if it wouldn't be smarter to develop a stub for VM DFSMS to access the IP interface (and for extra credit, write a set of C routines that Linux could use to interact with the thing....8-)).
