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From: jdg@dolphy.UUCP (Jesse Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Access to database on IBM/MVS from UNIX ?
Message-ID: <159@dolphy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 23:33:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: dolphy.159
Posted: Thu Sep  3 23:33:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 15:40:59 EDT
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> In article <463@ambush.UUCP>, storm@ambush.UUCP (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> > Which UNIX systems can talk to an IBM mainframe (besides providing
> > 'dumb' 3270 emulation on a UNIX terminal) ?  Is there any other
> > way to do it (i.e. let a UNIX program emulate a 3270 terminal when
> > talking to the IBM system) ?  
> > 

IBM's SNA LU 6.2 facility, meant to support system-to-system
communication, is an alternative.  AT&T has a product which supports
this.  I don't know (but doubt) if any DBMS vendors have integrated
support for it yet.  There's stuff built in to handle transaction
processing style applications with commits, backouts, etc. which is
hardly surprising given IBM's fetishes. 

Jesse Goodman
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