The VSE development lab won't be of much help there. As far as they're
concerned they already have an NFS client as delivered by the
Connectivity Systems TCP/IP Stack (which is delivered as a
pre-installed, priced feature with every VSE shipment).
Unfortunately that doesn't solve the problem for the significant
percentage of the customers that are using TCP/IP Tools from Barnard
Software (an alternative TCP/IP stack for VSE), which does not provide
an NFS client. Perhaps the requirement should go to Jeff... :)
David Boyes wrote:
Your last point.. Wouldn't it be so cool if VSE (zOS too) understood
SFS.. Especially now
that VSAM is no longer available for z/VM.
That *is* a cool idea. I can submit it as a WAVV requirement; the VSE
lab is a lot more cooperative about that sort of thing, and the WAVV
guys tend towards the VSE environment more than SHARE does. I doubt z/OS
would ever use it (although it would be a very elegant way to get FBA
and SCSI disk support into z/OS in short order...)
I wonder how difficult writing a VSAM to SFS block store driver would
be... hmm. Another project to do *later*...
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