Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!well.UUCP!ericsm From: ericsm@well.UUCP (Eric Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Mainframe I/O channel <--> PC/UNIX/LAN Message-ID: <9101241758.AA05521@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 24 Jan 91 08:42:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Eric Smith Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 Our application requires file tranfers between Unix LANs and IBM mainframes. We use the mainframe I/O channel connected directly to a card or box. (Our older installations use a box and the newer ones use a card.) The boxes and cards are KMW/Auscom. They make versions of the card to plug into different kinds of computers on the LAN, and all of them connect to the mainframe I/O channel. For example, one version plugs into a VME Bus, which we have in some of our Unix computers, and another plugs into a PC/AT bus. The box version connects the I/O channel directly to Ethernet, but is no longer supported. (It contains an LSI-11 inside the box.) Does anyone reading this know if there is a better solution to this? I want to find alternatives to KMW/Auscom, just so we can compare products and see if we are getting the most cost effective. We want to keep using the direct connection to the mainframe I/O channel, because we don't want to change the mainframe software, but we are willing to change the Unix and/or PC software.