[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Wilm Boerhout]

JF Mezei mentioned  on 22-11-2010 20:30:
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>>> The issue was to export datasets from MVS on 3480 cartridges,
>>> to be read seamlessly (i.e. w/o intermediate storage or conversion)
>>> on VAXen.
>
>
> Back in the early 1990s, a bank would generate a SWIFT transaction tape
> on their mainframe, and it would be read by a VAX. Every day. Worked.
>
> When this was upgraded to have the SNA gateway (to eliminate the tape
> handling), the SNA software supplied by DEC for the mainframe came on a
> tape produced by DEC and the IBM mainframe was able to read it.
>
> This was back in the 9 track tape era.

I did a lot of SNA Gateway installs back then, and it certainly did not 
involve any software to be installed or tapes to be read on the 
mainframe. The SNA Gateway did make the software installed on the VAX 
(3270, LU6.2, PrE, RJE) look like any standard SNA-capable equipment. On 
the mainframe side, you just had to parametrize some LUs so they could 
talk to the (VMS software) peripherals. That's emulation for ya!

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