wcm@geac.com (W Christopher Martin) (03/02/90)
This message is posted by a friend, please reply directly by mail. Thanks!
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We are using a Motorola 3000 series UNIX box and would like to connect to our
mainframe running MVS. We talked with Motorola and they do have a card and
software to provide support all types of mainframe communications one can
imagine (e.g. 3270, LU6.2). However, the problem is that the package appears as
an IBM 3274 controller to the mainframe and we want to connect to the mainframe
via our local controller instead of replacing it. To wit, we want to be able to
talk to our mainframe through the 3270 coax connection to the controller. We
have 2 requirements:
(1) physical connection: we want to connect to the local controller using 3270
coax connection instead of SDLC/BYSYNC connection as provided by the
Motorola card; what we are looking for is a VME card that provides 3270
coax connection;
(2) software support: we would like to have LU6.2 support (our mainframe
software talks LU6.2), i.e. we do NOT want to write our own LU6.2 driver
(or whatever you call it); on top of that, it would be great if we can get
3278 emulation as well; since we are running X11, we would like to have
one window emulating 3278 and talks to the mainframe as one interactive
session and have another window running our UNIX software which talks to
our mainframe software using LU6.2.
Is there any beast out there that can fill the order? It seems that there are
a good number of PC-mainframe communication packages available for PC-UNIX. Is
there something similar available for the 68030/VME bus combination? Is there
any reasonable soultion or are we dreaming?
I remembered a company called CSI (Communications Solutions Inc.) which sold
UNIX software handling SNA/3270 connections. However, I tried to call today
and found out the number belongs to someone else. Are they still in business?
Anyone know their new number?
Thanks in advance for any information provided!
Again, please reply by email since we do not have access to netnews yet!
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Peter Yeung Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
2000 Argentia Road, Plaza 2, Suite 300
Mississauga, Ont. L5N 1V8
py@meadow.UUCP py%meadow@geac.com uunet!jtsv16!geac!meadow!pybc@hpspdra.HP.COM (Bill Crandall) (03/03/90)
CSI was bought by 3Com. CSI didn't sell s/w directly to end-users; it only OEM'ed it. Bill Crandall Hewlett-Packard Intelligent Networks Operation (INO, I know)
wclark@csi.3Com.Com (Wayne Clark) (03/15/90)
In article <9003031946.AA18505@lilac.berkeley.edu> Bill Crandall <hpl-opus!hpspdra!bc@HPLABS.HP.COM> writes: >CSI was bought by 3Com. CSI didn't sell s/w directly to end-users; >it only OEM'ed it. > >Bill Crandall >Hewlett-Packard Intelligent Networks Operation (INO, I know) Sorry, but I missed the beginning of this thread. Did someone have questions about SNA software for end users? Even though CSI (and yes, we are now a part of 3Com) sold only OEM software, several of the customers were also end-users of it. -------------- Wayne Clark IBM Connectivity Operations, 3Com Corporation (formerly Communications Solutions, Inc.) phone: 408/562-6967 EMail: Wayne_Clark@SPD.3mail.3Com.COM -or- {nsc,bnrmtv,epimass}!csi!wclark
wclark@csi.UUCP (Wayne Clark) (03/15/90)
In article <9003031946.AA18505@lilac.berkeley.edu> Bill Crandall <hpl-opus!hpspdra!bc@HPLABS.HP.COM> writes: >CSI was bought by 3Com. CSI didn't sell s/w directly to end-users; >it only OEM'ed it. > >Bill Crandall >Hewlett-Packard Intelligent Networks Operation (INO, I know) Sorry, but I missed the beginning of this thread. Did someone have questions about SNA software for end users? Even though CSI (and yes, we are now a part of 3Com) sold only OEM software, several of the customers were also end-users of it. -------------- Wayne Clark IBM Connectivity Operations, 3Com Corporation (formerly Communications Solutions, Inc.) phone: 408/562-6967 EMail: Wayne_Clark@SPD.3mail.3Com.COM -or- {nsc,bnrmtv,epimass}!csi!wclark