Greetings from the CABAL. Have you considered using UNIX services? I don't know all that you want your product to do. But to communicate with the mainframe, you can use SSH to send a UNIX command to z/OS and receive the response back. This is basically simple "line mode" functionality. To me, this is rather easy to implement if the "white box" is running UNIX or Linux or MAC OS/X. It is more difficult with Windows because, IMO, Windows does not "play nice" with others.
Or you could just have a server running on the mainframe which uses TCPIP to receive "commands" and return "replies" to your code. The format of these "commands" and "replies" would be the "protocol" you designed for your supplied server. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Mackmahon > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:11 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Interfacing with the MainFrame > > Hi > > How would you prefer a product running on a server outside > the mainframe > will interface with the mainframe? > > Some Ideas i had: > > 1. Using a macro emulator that simulate a user which logon as > a regular > user, snap shot the screen display and parse the results > on the open. > > 2. Using FTP exits in order to submit a job / moving a rexx > to be ran under AXR etc... > > will this be a problem in your organization? > > > Any other ideas would be appreciated... > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
