Re: IBM Press Release: New Mainframe Customer in Korea

2009-12-23 Thread Rich Juchniewicz
Thanks for the clarification, Timothy. The IBM press release about BC card gave me the impression that the primary goal was to consolidate distributed servers, as the second paragraph in the press release said... "BC Card is a new IBM mainframe customer and will transform and consolidate its dis

Re: IBM Press Release: New Mainframe Customer in Korea

2009-12-17 Thread Rich Juchniewicz
Tim, I read the press release in your post -- which says that the solution for BC Card was structured as a System z Solution Edition http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28181.wss Reading through that, I get the impression that this is primarily a Linux on z/Series solution -- rather t

Re: VSAM Query Product

2009-06-26 Thread Rich Juchniewicz
It would be worth looking at the UltraQuest family of products - which let you query and build reports from mainframe VSAM, QSAM, DB2, IMS, IDMS, and Teradata, plus mid-tier Oracle and SQL Server -- and let you join data from all these data sources. http://www.selectbs.com/mainframe/Ultraquest

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Rich Juchniewicz
You could consider running an FTP server on Windows on a PC in your network that has a static IP address, and initiate an FTP session to it from z/OS to transfer the files. We've used the free FileZilla FTP server to do this: http://filezilla-project.org/ ..Rich - Original Message -

Re: I want to add virtual printer to my MFNetDisk, Any value?

2008-01-22 Thread Rich Juchniewicz
I agree that having a virtual printer feature may not be very useful. I wonder, though, if a feature to create virtual tape in AWSTAPE format, either on a remote PC or on the mainframe itself as a file, would be useful. When we ran z/OS under FLEX-ES, we had the capability to run z/OS jobs tha