Oh my God. I thought I'd never have to hear about Connect:Direct and
Sterling software again. I spent three months working on an absolute
pain-in-the-side project with what I hope is an older version of the program
(project was 5 or 6 years ago). I ended up using DOS batch files to grab
the data from an AS400, parse it, rename the datafiles with Julian dates and
port it back and forth to a mainframe at another telco. What an absolute
bit of nonsense. Just to give you an idea of how complicated it was, I had
to flow-chart the batch files before I could hand the support over to the
operations group.
Let me know if you want my stuff from that period, I usually keep everything
and could find it for you...
Good luck...
- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:44 PM
To: Steve OBrien; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Has anyone heard of NDM
Steve,
This sounds like Sterling Software's Network Data Mover (NDM), later known
as Connect:Direct. Sterling have been bought out by CA, so try looking at
www.ca.com for more info. CA have a product called CA:XCOM which does much
the same sort of thing, it could have been dropped in favour of this, you'll
need to dig around to find out what happened to it after the merger.
It is a file transfer package, with a scheduler and scripting tool,
originally used in a mainframe (SNA) environment, later enhaced for TCP/IP
trnasfers. It has NO benefit over FTP in terms of performance, but the bonus
is the script/schedule toollkit, which can be integrated into an MVS, UNIX
or NT environment (AFAIR), and includes hooks into things like OPCA, JES,
RJE etc.
I haven't seen it for a few years, but I recall it was reasonably OK, it had
a client that ran on OS/2 for SNA MF-PC transfers, and was a sod to get
running properly, but once it was running it ran forever. I saw the TCP/IP
version a few years ago, and thought it was OK, but I wasn't too interested
in the product at the time.
Hope this helps!
Regards
Pete S.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve OBrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 August 2000 19:08
Subject: Has anyone heard of NDM
>I just was asked by my boss why we are not using NDM insted of FTP. I
havent a
>clue what he is talking about. I could just say what is NDM.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Steve O'Brien
>
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