Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!NMSUVM1.BITNET!SYSTMD From: SYSTMD@NMSUVM1.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8712141905.AA07427@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 06:40:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: SYSTMD%NMSUVM1.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 I am looking for information/opinions/experiences pertaining to any & all of the following items. My apologies up front if 1) any have been dealt with previously (I am new to this list) and 2) for the ignorance of the any of the questions (we do not currenly run either CICS or TSO on our MVS system; we have no SNA network to speak of; I am new to the TCP/IP world). For either IBM VM or MVS/JES3 systems, 1) does anyone have knowledge of or experience with channel- attached Ethernet "bridges" such as ACC's 9310 + ACCES/MVS, Fibronics box, IBM's 8232 + 5798-FAL VM TCP/IP, etc.? In particular: a) performance - how fast is FTP? (we're talking thick Ethernet) b) reliability - both the hardware & the software c) support - does the vendor dump you after you fork over the $$? Do they promise new software or hardware in 6 mo. and deliver in 2 years? Do they have good central support? d) functionality - what sort of FTP subcommands are implemented? If MVS, where is FTP implemented--CICS, TSO, ?? Does Telnet make a 3278 look like a VT100 (i.e., full-screen, or just line mode)? Does everything work the way the manual says it should? And so forth. 2) does anyone have a "PAD" kind of box like ACC's ACS 1030 that channel attaches to an IBM MVS system, slaps some headers around the SDLC stuff & ships it out on an Ethernet, then strips them off at the destination? (I'm a bit vague on what the channel-attached thing might be--a CTC? a 3274?--or what might be on th other end). The idea is to build up an SNA network that uses the LAN as a backbone (so that you can have 1 network instead of 2). Is this a crazy idea? A very stupid question? 3) does anyone have VM or MVS software to go with #1 that implements print service for a TCP/IP network using an IBM 3800-3 (both line & page mode), a tape backup server, an NFS disk server, or a "postmaster"/username-info-curraddr server? Please send any replies directly to me.