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From: tmp@j.cc.purdue.edu (Tom Putnam)
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Subject: Re: Access to database on IBM/MVS from UNIX ?
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 15:29:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 15:29:40 1987
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In article <3589@zen.berkeley.edu> larry@postgres.UUCP (Larry Rowe) writes:
>tcp/ip implementations are actually being done by a group out
>of univ. of wisc. (larry landwebber is contact).  they have
>implemented and delivered a VM implementation that can be
>purchased from ibm.  

Your information is a year or more out of date.  Landwebber et.al. were
responsible for the initial project, but they have not been active with
this stuff for quite a while.  Check IBM Programming Announcement dated
April 21, 1987 for the announcement of the TCP/IP for VM.  The new
product is based upon the old WISCNET stuff but looks very much more up
to date.  We are running the old WISCNET, but we just received the new
TCP/IP from IBM last week.

The IBM stuff now includes FTP, SMTP (mail), TELNET, interfaces to TCP
and UDP for C and PASCAL, Internet subnet routing, domain name servers
and resolver, and more.  The product set also includes a corresponding
IBM PC software set (based upon the MIT PC/IP stuff).  The announcement
also includes a new DACU (Device Attached Channel Unit) which is now a
fully supported product.  

Now if we could get Oracle or others to build a TCP/IP client/server set 
using SQL queries, we might be able to answer the initial question...

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