[email protected] (Farley, Peter x23353) writes: > I may not get to try your XMITMSG tool for a while due to other > commitments, but the VM facility I miss the most is the SMSG / WAKEUP > SMSG facility that permits "server" VM's to run and respond to remote > requests from "users". In a prior lifetime my coworkers and I used > that facility to implement a nicely featured SCLM for an ISV. > > I realize that a git server is the modern incarnation of that concept > and git is certainly a much more sophisticated SCLM tool, but it would > be interesting anyway to have something resembling SMSG / WAKEUP SMSG > available in z/OS. > > XMITMSG would be very helpful in a "disconnected server" setup for sure.
triva: SPM ... special message was a superset of SMSG & IUCV combined. It was original done for CP/67 by the IBM Pisa Scientific Center ... and ported to vm370 in POK. I included it in my internal CSC/VM system distribution for internal datacenters and supported by internal VNET (even included in the original version shipped to customers). Reference in this old post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 and email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 more detailed description http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html16 I had also done autolog facility ... originally for doing automated benchmarks http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark but was included in my internal CSC/VM distribution and quickly picked up for starting "service virtual machines" ... which could use SPM for doing things like early "automated operator" implementations. It was used by the author of REXX in his multi-user (client/server) space wars implementation ... client supported 3270 display and client/server communication was via SPM. Since VNET internal network supported SPM ... space war players could be on the same machine or anyplace on the internal network. One of the problems was bot players fairly early appeared which were beating all the human players (because they could make moves much faster). Server was then modified that increased energy user non-linearly as interval between moves dropped below some (human) threashold. part of old (client) MFF PLI http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#4 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
