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From: NJG@CORNELLA.BITNET (Nick Gimbrone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: TCP/IP for IBM/MVS systems
Message-ID: <8901031814.AA14861@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 89 16:59:58 GMT
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Reply-To: Nick Gimbrone <NJG%CORNELLA.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu>
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>>Does anyone know anything about the following Vendors/Products in
>>terms of Reliability, Support, Installations, History, etc ?
>>3. IBM has a TCP option for the IBM/MVS operating system but it is
>>   not available until 3Q89.
>(b) It sounds like this particular vendor's IP software, at least for
>    this particular hardware and operating system, has no track record
>    in terms of reliability, support, installation, etc.  Your
>    question is unanswerable in this case.
Not so. This is a port of their existing product for VM. All that changes
is a layer to provide system level services in a compatable manner in
both operating systems. It can be expected to be very reliable,
outstandingly supported, and simple to install BECAUSE the existing
product is all of these things and this new product is a small
delta on that existing product.