lawrence@nvanbc.UUCP (10/18/86)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a need to connect an IBM 4341 running CICS and DOS under VM to a DEC VAX (uVAX II or 8200). I know very little about the IBM world and would like to ask the nice people out there if anyone knows of a product which can connect these two systems. I need basicly to perform task to task communication between the applications running on the two machines. I think an ethernet controller which can be conntected directly to an IBM channel would be the most desirable solution, but I am open to other ideas. Further details: VAX Will be uVAX II or an 8200 running VMS 4.x. Terminal support will be provied by DECSERVER 100's connected to ethernet. IBM Is a 4341 running CICS and DOS under VM. Terminal support is provided by a Series/1 which does protocol conversion for async. terminals. There is no 3705 or 3725 comunication controllers in this system. Please mail responses and I will post a summary to net.dcom if anyone asks. Thanks in advance. -------- Phone : (604) 736-9241 ( 9:00 - 17:00 PDT ) UUCP : ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!van-bc!nvanbc!lawrence LAND : Health Care Systems, 2145 West Broadway, B.C., Canada, V6K 4L3
ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (10/20/86)
In article <136@nvanbc.UUCP>, lawrence@nvanbc.UUCP writes: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I have a need to connect an IBM 4341 running CICS and DOS under VM to a > DEC VAX (uVAX II or 8200). I know very little about the IBM world and would > like to ask the nice people out there if anyone knows of a product which can > connect these two systems. Problem #1: Hooking IBM hardware up to ethernet. This one can be solved one of three ways. There are two companies that make channel attached ethernet devices. One is Fibronics (formerly called Spartacus) and I believe that ACC in Santa Barbara is also making one (more than likely called IF-370). The other way is to get a DACU from IBM. The DACU is a unibus to channel adapter that is controlled (GAK) by an IBM-PC. You then just stick an Ethernet card into the DACUs Unibus. Problem #2. TCP/IP software is probably the easiest way. There is TCP/IP available for VM in the form of the "WISCNET" code. This should get you TELNET service from the VAX to the IBM, however the fact that you are using DOS and CICS complicates the matter. Most of the user interface parts of the code are CMS utilities. -Ron