On 03/03/2014 11:27 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 03/03/2014 > at 01:30 PM, Miklos Szigetvari <[email protected]> > said: > >> Is it possible to access the z/OS WIKI from a mainframe application ? > The real question is whether there is a browser that will run under > TSO and render a z/OS wiki page on a 3270; simple access should not be > an issue. > I see no reason to require that there be a browser that would run under TSO to display the documentation on a 3270. I can't imagine running z/OS these days without TCP/IP connectivity, especially since TSO 3270 access these days usually uses a 3270 emulator on a workstation platform and TN3270 over TCP/IP, and if workstation browser access to a mainframe web server is broken, TSO access is probably dead also. Even at our DR exercises LAN connectivity to laptops and desktops was always available early in the game.
Copies of any documentation needed to get z/OS and TCP/IP up should always be in some form (memory sticks, smart phones, CD/DVD, external hard drives, or in hard copy) where it can be accessed without z/OS. It makes sense to keep the authoritative current documentation for z/OS on the z/OS platform itself, but this doesn't preclude keeping copies on alternate media/platforms and in forms that are adequate to get z/OS with TCP/IP up and functional. Once z/OS is functional, it makes no sense to disallow or not require that browsers on other platforms better suited to rendering graphics and decent fonts be the mode of access. If the desire is to keep all that documentation in a wiki database on z/OS, there are surely utilities that can export the wiki database from z/OS in some form that would satisfy the emergency availability requirements. For that matter it probably wouldn't be that difficult with a laptop running some flavor of Linux to configure it to run a web server with wiki support and provide for it to re-sync its database to the z/OS wiki database with appropriate frequency. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
