Mike, Any chance you could sketch out a mental picture for us of your network and application architecture? I think I understand that you have something that currently requires an LU0 connection to your mainframe. (What is that something? How many of them are there? And what's on the mainframe end?) I think the concern is that you might be doing extra work (and adding extra cost) that is unnecessary. Gateways of various kinds were very common a couple decades ago, but at least an awful lot of them are no longer required since so much of that function is built-in now. So people kind of get worried when somebody asks about rolling out lots of new gateways.
IBM Communications Server for Windows has its uses, but (since I speak only for myself anyway) I'd be happy to tell you whether or not you actually need it. I'm like the Santa who works at Macy's. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / 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
