One slight correction. It was called PIE-VM/Sessions. There were also PIE-CICS/Sessions and PIE-TSO/Sessions (PIE = Productivity Integrated Environment; TSC = Technologic Software Concepts, Inc.). TSC already had session managers for CICS and TSO when they bought Amdahl's product. They tried to combine the them without hiring anyone who knew anything about VM. Their only real success in the integration effort was in the naming of the products. TSC sold all of its legacy software products to Unicom Systems.
It was a sad day when Amdahl decided to not sell Sessions to Kolinar, where it would have been properly supported. Even when TSC was supporting Sessions, they weren't, they were just collecting rent. Having known and worked with the developers of Sessions, I never did call it PIE after it was sold. (Maybe that is why problems we reported were never fixed.) Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: LOGONBY > > David, > > Aside from a test, I never installed Arty's "Session". For > years we had from Technologic Software Concepts a product > called PIE-Sessions/VM, which was Amdahl's "Sessions" tool > (an outstanding LDEV manager - the server for which one > DIALed into before logon, as in 'DIAL PIE'). TSC utterly > abandoned that product at Y2K, and then 3270 emulators pretty > much took > over the show. TSC is long gone, although a subset of their other > products appear to have been bought by others (might have > been a good VMSHARE topic: "MEMO SOLDOUT").
