Re: NSS and Datapower

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew McLaren
. Cheers Andrew McLaren Sydney, Australia On 14/12/11 02:29, Rob Schramm wrote: Does anyone have any experience with NSS and Datapower that they would be willing to share? Thanks, Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew McLaren
useful contact. Personally I would like to adopt the VPS-based solution ... now just a matter of convincing the boss :-) Regards to all, Andrew McLaren Sydney Australia On 3/06/2010 04:41, Linda Mooney wrote: Hi Andrew, We also use VPS, VPS/TCPIP, DRS, DRS/TCPIP. We run about 500-600 active

TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-02 Thread Andrew McLaren
, suggestions, ideas or info! Regards to all IBM-MAIN folks, Andrew McLaren Sydney, Australia -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Window under zVM or in LPAR

2009-07-08 Thread Andrew McLaren
processor (I think my memory's kinda hazy). Definitely interesting, as a curiosity! :-) Cheers Andrew McLaren -- amclar at optusnet dot com dot au -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: peripheral: thoughts on Amazon Kindle DX PDFs

2009-06-18 Thread Andrew McLaren
Martin Packer wrote: If you were following me on Twitter :-) or Facebook :-) you'd note I had a Sony PRS-700 eBook Reader to read my PDFs on. It's an alternative to a Kindle(2) and should work worldwide, unlike the Kindle(2). Now some good cheap PDF editing tools would come in handy. G'gay

DFSMS question: DFM futures/roadmap?

2009-03-08 Thread Andrew McLaren
- except for legacy (heritage?) APPC client apps - would make sense. Anyway, does anyone have any guidance for us here ... will DFM continue to be around in z/OS 1.11, 1.12 etc? Or, should we be migrating to NFS now? Many thanks for any info. Andrew McLaren

TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Andrew McLaren
Hi all, Kind of a weird question I know, but ... it has been a day full of weird questions. A customer would like to know if they can open a TN3270 session *from* one z/OS host, to another z/OS host? I do not believe this is possible. For a start, you cannot have 2 SSCPs in the same

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew McLaren
Huh? What version of Windows are we talking about??? Both the Windows machines on my desktop are running a built-in ftp server. One is XP Pro, and the other is Vista Enterprise Edition. The ftp server is not installed by default, but it is included in the optional components, for Windows 2000

Re: It keeps getting uglier

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew McLaren
I thought it would have been interesting to see how Microsoft would have reacted to a consent decree. Doug Umm, like the Consent Decree issued to Microsoft in 1994? http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f/0047.htm Or perhaps the Consent Decree issued to Microsoft in 2002?

Re: Arbiter, DASD emulation? Historical trivia ..

2007-11-11 Thread Andrew McLaren
Many thanks to Paul Peplinkski, Ken Hall and Pat O'Keefe, for their recollections about Arbiter. That's a great help; fills in many of the missing pieces. I was the SNA guy at that particular site, and most Arbiter problems initially came through from the Help Desk as comms issues. It usually

Arbiter, DASD emulation? Historical trivia ..

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew McLaren
from, who made it, did anyone else ever use it, and does it still exist today? Google searches did not throw up much. A fairly low-priority enquiry ... but I'd welcome any information Thanks and regards Andrew McLaren

Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-13 Thread Andrew McLaren
Pardon the topic drift, but ... I'd tended to assume VSE was more common in Europe, Middle East, or here in Australia. When I've mentioned VSE to Americans, sometimes they don't even know it exists (okay, granted: these were very poorly informed folks*! but anyways ..) It sounds, from the

Re: DLSw Test Program? (Was OSA-Express2 and SNA Pcomm - loss of connectivity)

2007-09-04 Thread Andrew McLaren
, you might find a copy of DLCPing to use. Regards, Andrew McLaren Sydney, Australia -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, 3 September 2007 15:17 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DLSw Test Program

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew McLaren
Struth, cobber ... you must be joking. Unix System Services is certified as a true Unix, as defined by the Open Group (see http://www.unix.org) Linux is a Unix-like operating system ... but so far, *no* Linux distribution has passed Unix certification. No matter how much the zealots might