On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:20:13 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > >A relatively "funny" joke from the period ... was that JES2 networking >tables effectively was part of large system change control. The internal >network had significantly more nodes than could be defined in JES2 >... and so most MVS systems were restricted to edge nodes. Internal >users that actually tried to do things from MVS systems were constantly >attempting to deal with those network nodes that were currently defined >in that particular system (and just getting change to the JES2 network >table frequently would take a month or two ... as part of the next MVS >system load/test) ... this was aggrevated by JES2 tossing traffic if it >didn't have the destination node defined (in case the traffic might have >to go someplace else) ... but also would toss traffic if it didn't have >the originating node defined. > I often wonder whether a reason TCP/IP triumphed over SNA was that SNA didn't provide a facility with the scalability of DNS.
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