[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[H Vlems]

On Nov 22, 8:50 pm, Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-deletet... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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!
>
> --
> Wilm Boerhout         |
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Wilm. did you install a channel attached gateway at Fuji in Tilburg
around 1990?
Hans