[email protected] (Edward Gould) writes: > Thanks for reminding me to ask a question that I have never gotten IBM > to answer. Whenever I have ordered TCP/IP I have always had to order > PASCAL runtime library. Since we have lost SE’s and salesmen are now > non existent. There is no one left to answer this question. About 20 > years ago, I asked IBM and was told that in order to answer this we > would have to hire an IBM contractor and the minimum cost would be > $1000. I said no thanks and just continued ordering it, The cost was > small IIRC so it never reached VP approval. What is the reason why we > have to order the PASCAL library?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#37 CMS style XMITMSG for Unix and other platforms http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#38 CMS style XMITMSG for Unix and other platforms the mainframe TCP/IP product implementation was originally done in Pascal/VS ... the mainframe pascal originally by two people in the Los Gatos lab using Metaware's TWS for internal VLSI tool implementation This implementation had none of the buffer exploits that are notoriously epidemic in C-language implementations. 5735-HAL IBM TCP/IP FOR MVS Version 2.2 (no longer available 13Dec1994) http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=sm&htmlfid=897/ENUS5735-HAL Enhanced Socket Library TCP/IP Version 2 for MVS has a more extensive socket library than provided by Version 1. This extended Socket Library support, based on Berkeley Socket Library**, BSD 4.3*, removes the requirement for the PASCAL Runtime library since all sockets are written to the C language interface. This support facilitates the port of UNIX** applications to the System/370*. however later on it says running in "31 bit mode", pascal run time library is required. 10Sep1996 TCP/IP v3r2 for MVS/ESA https://www-304.ibm.com/jct01003c/cgi-bin/common/ssi/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=897/ENUS296-317&appname=usn&language=enus Note: IBM TCP/IP Version 3 Release 2 for MVS/ESA does not include the Pascal FTP server as stated in Software Announcement 294-529, dated September 13, 1994. Customers should migrate to the C FTP server prior to installing TCP/IP Version 3 Release 2. this (updated 4Dec2017) mentions a pascal version SMTP & Pascal Sockets API http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019687 This says pascal just needed for user written programs that interface to TCP/UDP/IP https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.e0zb100/pgmreqs.htm same here https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.e0zb100/pgmreqs.htm -- 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
