SYSMSH@ULKYVX.BITNET.UUCP (01/25/87)
>My question is -- right now, RJE to the Amdahl is my most important >reason to talk to them. I have a fair idea of how I could get >into the EMS world via JES3 and jNET, but the ins and outs of using >this setup for RJE are not quite as obvious (at least to me). Is >there anyone out there with suggestions/experience/advice? We converted our IBM batch users from HASP over Harris RJE terminals to using our VAXcluster and JNET. One way to utilize this was under the users' control, for example: $ send/file/class=v myjob.fil os370@ukcc where myjob.fil was a file containing the users's job and jcl ect. We had to send class V (for virtual reader I guess....shudder). The os370@ukcc was the OS370 virtual machine running on a nearby school's 3081. A second way we offered this service was to allow the user load their "card deck" by uploading a text file on an apple diskette(we had replaced all the keypunches with apples). A little piece of local software read the job, edited in a couple of jcl statements, and submitted the job using the above command. The jcl modifications were necessary to get the printouts ect back. I believe the jcl was...(shudder)....: /*route print ulkyvx.prt /*route punch ulkyvx.prt Which routed print and punch output to the JNET printer spooler. Users who submitted their own jobs had to mess with their own JCL to get the printouts back. Since you are running MVS (probably not under VM) I'd expect that the class, jcl, and destination of the send command would need to be changed. The point of this message is to indicate that using JNET for RJE is possible, and in our experience, superior to hasp. We have found only one problem, our operations staff no longer have access to the same hasp commands that they did on the harris. I am refering to things like $DJ and $DA. I assume that this can still be done but I did not really feel like hacking it out. While most of our RJE users were OS/VS1 users we are migrating to MVS and one of the MVS users has actually submitted jobs to the MVS machine from VMS and received his output. The recent release 3.0 of the JNET printer spooler supports different 'forms' from the ibm side. Now trembling uncontrolably: Mark Hittinger/systems programmer iv/ocis south center University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky 40292 sysmsh%ulkyvx.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu