I see. It was presented to me, second hand, as a replacement for VM/VTAM, not an addition to it. That may well have been a misunderstanding of what was presented.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 1:54 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: VTAM on an IFL? > > On Monday, 04/28/2008 at 04:00 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > A couple of years ago, when our communications folks were > upgrading to > > Enterprise Extender (or some such), IBM was pushing this at > them for > > VM like it was already a done deal. Talk SNA out one side of the > > mouth; TCP/IP out the other, kind of like a salesman does. You mean > > that IBM doesn't already have it up and working? Nothing > was said, so > > far as I know, about any development efforts to get it to > talk that way. > > Communications Server for Linux has an SNA stack and an EE > implementation to do SNA-over-IP. You would use it supply EE > functionality to VM/VTAM and VSE/VTAM. It never was an > inbound LU2-to-TN3270 converter, but it does have an inbound > TN3270-to-LU2 converter, replacing those outboard appliances. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
