Jack,
Please don't run salt in the wounds of history, Many VM Hacks would love to provide such things, but for a number of reasons it is becoming harder to provide integration into the brave new world. Some if this is because to an extent IBM locked VM & CMS in a closed closet source wise, and activley discoureged user mods. But its also due to availability of system access. I do have used access to a modern VM system which I have used for GCC porting but that's thanks to the generosity of a list member. If I had to pay I couldn't do it. Dave No longer a Fully Employed VM Hack. Fully employed in IT, yes, but VM no longer as a paid employee.. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: 05 April 2009 23:18 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Secure FTP Dave Wade wrote: Well Linux expects a directory structure so "normal" CMS disks aren't easily accessed, I can think of one or two ways to model that to Linux. and the protocols used to access the BFS and SFS file systems are proprietary, so that not easily achieved either.... Has whining and pleading been tried? You wouldn't have to worry about scp or sftp for CMS. You'd just fetch this stuff back and forth thru Linux. Ah yes the joys of closed systems... Anecdotally it appears that you fully employed VM hacks spend way too much time stumbling over how hard it is to integrate CMS into the brave new world. A file system driver in Linux would fix about 99% of the integration methinks. -- Jack J. Woehr # I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afterwards.
