On 9 October 2016 at 11:17, Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> wrote: > As aside do you know where the doc is for IND$FILE > > Seems like it's a TSO command processor > Maybe I can invoke via IKJTSOEV
There is no single official document for IND$FILE. Over the almost three decades that it has existed, a large handful of people (maybe two handfuls) have made it their business to understand the complete protocol. One of the earliest I know of was Pierre Goyette, then at McGill U. Of course all the independent makers of TN3270 terminal software have implemented some version or another in their products. One of the early discussions is in the VMSHARE archives from 1990-1992 at http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse?fn=IND$FILE&ft=PROB As is currently the case with IBM's Media Manager, there were rumours that the full IND$FILE protocol doc was available for $1M or something. Well, who knows - in those days reverse engineering was not proscribed the way it often is now, and I doubt anyone paid the big bucks. There is also a good and reasonably current summary with more recent pointers to doc at http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/IND$FILE.html And one or two of the handful are still around and maybe even still talking... Check out http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT607.zip for one person who is currently (2016) updating his product.. But I imagine you have little interest in the protocol details. Yes, you should be able to invoke IND$FILE via IKJTSOEV, but to what end? Your 3270 emulator has to be expecting the resulting data stream, so it's normal for the emulator to issue the IND$FILE "command" when you invoke its "file transfer" menu. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
