On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 21:00:12 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Is there a decent caching-only name server for z/OS? I run "nscd" on Linux >to cache my name lookups. I am currently running the RESOLVER proc on z/OS. >It points to a Windows WINS server. But, for some reason, most of the jobs >on z/OS have hard coded IP addresses in them. I don't know why. > Because that's the way Windows (used to) do it? But is Windows getting better? I still hear my colleagues instructing each other to use IP addresses when they configure printer drivers, and most of our departmental printers are labelled with IP addresses.
Didn't I here lately, hereabouts, that IBM is discontinuing support for their caching-only name server and advising z/OS customers to point to servers on Linux or whatever? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
