[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Wilm Boerhout]

H Vlems mentioned  on 23-11-2010 18:36:
> On Nov 22, 8:50 pm, Wilm Boerhout<wboerhout-deletet... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> JF Mezei mentioned  on 22-11-2010 20:30:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> 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         |
>> Zwolle,               |   'These are the times that try men's souls'
>> The Netherlands       |   (Thomas Paine, The Crisis)
>
> Wilm. did you install a channel attached gateway at Fuji in Tilburg
> around 1990?
> Hans

Around that that time, it would have been either me, or my distinguished 
colleague Michiel Willemsen. We were the SNA gang back then. It could 
well have been me...

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Wilm Boerhout         |
Zwolle,               |   'These are the times that try men's souls'
The Netherlands       |   (Thomas Paine, The Crisis)