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From: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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Subject: Re: uucp on IBM mainframe ?!
Message-ID: <191@ima.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Aug-86 22:07:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ima.191
Posted: Sun Aug 17 22:07:38 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Aug-86 04:17:16 EDT
References: <133@uwmacc.UUCP>
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Summary: sort of

In article <133@uwmacc.UUCP> pwu@uwmacc.UUCP (Peter Wu) writes:
>Does anyone know if there's software available for IBM mainframe
>(running MVS 370 XA) to do uucp (i.e. hook up to usenet) with
>an unix host?

Sort of.  If you're running VM, then under VM you can run IX/370 which
is the official IBM version of TSSIX, which was AT&T's Unix port running
on top of a stripped down version of TSS/370, now all under VM.  IX/370 is
a real Unix port, and as such comes along with uucp.  There are a few hitches,
though.  The first is that IX/370 is pretty expensive.  It's an IBM mainframe
product and priced to match.  The next is that you need a Series/1 mini to
run your async lines, since IBM does not generally support transparent ascii
connections to their mainframe systems.

What it really boils down to is that under the usual IBM operating systems,
both hardware and software conspire to keep you from running uucp.  The best
bet, if you don't want IX/370, is to look at the various packages which make
a Unix system seem to be a remote node on an IBM-style network.
-- 
John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
{ ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.EDU
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