> How about sshd for USS, IBM? There is a port; it's more than a little fragile, though.
> Back on the topic at hand, why not use something like "site > submit" for incoming jobs, and LPR/LPD printing for output > coming back? You can set up destinations via NPF (or it's > successor) on zOS. Then we're back to automating FTP, and LPR/LPD don't support forms well, or a number of other useful printing features. It's not that there aren't other ways to do this, it's that the other ways are poorly integrated and really feel like what they are: afterthoughts grudgingly bolted on the side to make it work, rather than doing the extra work to make the integration seamless. > What is real NJE going to buy you? You can't RUN the jobs on > the Linux node. Here's a few I can think of: Access to superior (IMHO) interactive editing environments Access to industry standard source code management tools Unattended operation of file transfers Automated queuing and retry if destination host unavailble Implied sequencing of file transfers multifile parallel transfer support (possible with gridftp, but z/OS doesn't speak gridftp yet w/o my Globus port) Single auditing point for information transfer. Single connection between hosts (easier on FWs) TCPNJE is trivially SSL-wrappable Transparent output routing from batch (can be done with NPF, but w/o full forms processing capability) etc... Linux/Solaris/AIX/HPUX and even the Windows goons are already moving past LPR/LPD and SMB to IPP. Time for VM and z/OS to do the same. Easiest way to do that: put IPP support in RSCS and use NJE from z/OS and VM to deliver the goods to RSCS or a Linux guest. Zero mods on z/OS, some work on VM or Linux, everybody wins. We also need TCPNJE support on z/OS. I argued this back on the VMESA-L mailing list a while back: if channel-attached printing is really dying off, then it's time to finish the job on integrating printing and output management into RSCS and make it the de facto output manager for VM. PRINT and friends need to start being cognizant of that fact. It's the right thing to do. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
