In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said: > Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:47:24 -0300 > > In <[log in to unmask]>, on 09/03/2005 > at 10:47 PM, Ed Gould <[log in to unmask]> said: > > >IBM should provide, IMO, a error free (or almost) way of > >transmitting dumps. > > They had one: Info/Access. They dropped it. > > IBMlink allowed an NJE connection as a transport mechanism. Perhaps > NJE over TCP/IP will make that a desirable option again. > I don't understand the architecture here. Is SNA a layer under NJE? How about VTAM?
Why has TCP/IP so surpassed SNA? Superficially, I see absence of DNS as a major deficiency. Lack of DNS replicates, rather than distributing, administrative burdens; requiring routing tables at each node. Has that been a major obstacle? At one point, I believe IBM tried to establish a registry and wedge a sort of hierarchial name space into 8 characters. Did that succeed? -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
