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From: dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes)
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Subject: Re: NJE over TCP/IP?
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Date: 15 Apr 91 04:43:37 GMT
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In article <1258@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> wiggins@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Rick Wiggins) writes:
>
>Has anyone heard of a method to support NJE over a TCP/IP connection
>between a 3090 running MVS and Unix workstations?  We would like to make
>our 3090 more accessable to our faculty and students who are not on our
>VM/CMS system.  Is this possible? 

If the MVS system runs as a guest under VM, I believe the
University of Florida people have used the Princeton VMNET code
and the VMNET support present in PSU's 'urep' package to connect
the two setups. It involves a PROP DVM on the VM side that's set
up as the SECUSER for the MVS machine to issue the JES2/3
commands to start the link when it sees the VCTC come ready from VMNET.

You may also want to investigate the Apollo-derived NCS (Network
Computing System) stuff in MVS TCP v2 (not yet out, but Real Soon
Now according to IBM). NCS is a pretty nifty way to put real
horsepower in the hands of workstation users in a fairly
transparent fashion. 

>aside, we are also interested in supporting this from DOS and Mac based
>machines.  I would appreciate hearing your ideas and suggestions about
>this.

Depends on what you want your MVS box to do for the Macs & PCs.
I'm not sure how NJE connectivity for micros would really work --
could you speculate a bit more? What's the percieved advantage?

>RickWiggins@UAkron.Edu          Computer Center, Room 144E
>(216) 972-7183                  Akron, Ohio  44325-3501


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