The products mentioned: CICS Batch Application Control http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/bac/
Session Manager for z/OS http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/smanag/ Workload Simulator for z/OS http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/workloadsimulator/ CICS VSAM Transparency http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/vt/ are all licensed products with a one-time charge and (optional) annual subscription and support. They are not free. For the record, Session Manager for z/OS supports TN3270E. It's the much older Tivoli Netview Access Services ("NVAS") product that doesn't. However, there is a free trial download for CICS Batch Application Control and some other CICS tools here: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/systemz/trials/cicstools/ Workload Simulator and some other tools are available for a test drive here: http://zserveros.dfw.ibm.com/ - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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