Weird alphaWorks from IBM as a mainframe product? Does anyone recall how IBM happens to own the trademark alphaWorks?
It was a LOTUS name that IBM got ownwership off when they bought Lotus. alphaWorks was LOTUS' compeating product to Microsoft Works ... pre windows. Regards Avram Friedman On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:48:49 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, likely not of much interest. But who knows? > ><quote> >Console Command Generator for z/OS is an easy-to-use API that enables >C/C++ and Java(tm) programs to issue z/OS Console commands and retrieve >the responses. > >The module containing the API can be dynamically loaded by the program >needing it. This is done either implicitly (in case of the Java >interface) or is explicitly coded according to the included C/C++ sample >code. The API uses the macros MCSOPER, MCSOPMSG, and MGCRE, available >from the IBM z/OS Authorized Assembler Program, to create a z/OS user >console, issue commands, and read from the console. > ></quote> > >http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/commandgenerator4zos > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
