On Mon, 28 May 2007 02:18:55 +0000, Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The WSA is the same. It allows workstation files to be manipulated as if >they existed on the mainframe, or mainframe files to be manipulated as if >they existed on the workstation. A file transfer may or may not be required; >e.g. if a command is sent from the mainframe to delete a workstation file, >no file transfer takes place. If a command is sent to edit a workstation >file on the mainframe, a file transfer takes place. However, it's completely >automatic; i.e. the workstation file simply opens in the ISPF editor. When >the edit session ends, the file is quietly and automatically transferred >back to the workstation. Everything is seamless and there is no perceived >"file transfer" operation. > And if I want to assemble (or COPY from SYSLIB), compile (or #include), Bind, execute, or serve as web page that file on the other platform, does WSA make that seamless also? (To be fair, for some of these operations, even with NFS, I perform a copy because I too often find things on the wrong side of the ASCII<->EBCDIC bridge.)
And if my workstation is running Linux or OS X? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
