I remember the SNATAM name now. There was an Englishman, Graham Pursey,
who used to attend the VNET Project Team meetings that were held once
or twice a year. It seems to me that he was involved in some kind of VM
based VTAM project. Was that it or was there something else? It seems
to me that there was something besides SNATAM.
Getting old and memory is the second thing to go. Don't remember what
the first was.
Jim
Lee Stewart wrote:
I can't help but toss in two cents here...
Back many years ago when I worked up at IBM Boulder we had an edict to
install VTAM access to our VM system so all the sales people around the
country could get PROFS.
There was no GCS at the time, and the whole VS/1, VTAM, VSCS thing was a
mess, unstable, and devoured our machine...
We stumbled into a project from the Rochester MN lab called SNATAM. A
true VM-based implementation of SNA. As I recall... It ran in a
couple CMS userids and all the config files were just CMS files. It
talked to MVS by CTCs and also supported attached 3745s. It was small,
neat and efficient.
Then management found our that we were running it instead of VTAM on
"such a high visibility project" and forced us to switch to the VS/1
VTAM VSCS mess. Then eventually GCS etc. Then, when the Notes edict
killed PROFS, it killed the need for VTAM there...
The silly part was that the sales people across the country never even
knew they were using VM -- just PROFS... If they knew they used VM all
the time maybe they wouldn't have talked down about it so much...
Sigh...
Lee
(no VTAM on my lab systems!)
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Jim Bohnsack
Cornell University
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