Ed > It was still pretty buggered up with PASCAL components scattered about, ...
I believe the position today is the list I included in a post to Peter Farley, which I will post again for your convenience: <quote> - SMTP and LPD servers - TSO HOMETEST, LPQ, LPR, LPRM, LPRSET, TELNET, and TESTSITE commands </quote> Note that the HOMETEST and TESTSITE utilities are way past their sell-by date in terms of usefulness and, in some circumstances HOMETEST can be downright dangerous in terms of retention of sanity![1] The point about this list is that you may very well not need to bother with any of these residual components and your system can be Pascal-free. This will have two benefits: 1. No need for configuration Step 3, "Configure VMCF and TNF"[2][3] so no more worrying about VMCF and TNF. 2. No need to ensure that the HOSTNAME statement specifies the same value in the generically named TCPIP.DATA data set associated with the Communication Server IP main address space (gethostname call) and the generically named TCPIP.DATA data set associated with any address space running a Pascal program (GetIdentity call).[1] and one consideration: - If you allow the value of the HOSTNAME parameter to default to the "parameter" set in step 3, beware that the default will become the IEASYSxx member SYSNAME value. So each user of the IP component of z/OS Communications Server can hang out the bunting, order up the champagne and invite all his colleagues to a party when the great day comes that the shadow of Pascal is lifted from his or her system! - [1] http://www.aime.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1107&L=ibm-main&D=0&P=1121604 [2] http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B3B0/1.2.21.5 I know it falls under "Required steps before starting TCP/IP" http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B3B0/1.2.21 but who ever claimed that the manual authors always got their efforts 100% correct! [3] VMCF = Virtual Machine Communication Facility, TNF = Termination Notification Facility - Chris Mason On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:48:40 -0500, Ed Finnell <[email protected]> wrote: >It was still pretty buggered up with PASCAL components scattered about, so >much so it violated Software Manufacturing's policies and was only >orderable as a separate product. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
