On Tuesday, 03/27/2007 at 01:21 CST, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 3:03 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan > Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 03/27/2007 at 01:48 EST, Marcy Cortes > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now, for the rest of us in the dark, what we we do with that function? > > > > Connect to *MSG or other system services. Or even CMS apps or other Linux > > servers without using IP. ISFC Collections (VM clusters) and distributed > > IUCV anyone? > > Does that include the system management API stuff?
It includes the z/VM 5.3 System Management APIs, yes. The prior versions of SMAPI are TCP/IP (RPC) only. It is not, however, suitable for connecting to the VM TCP/IP stack a la CMS. For that, z/VM 5.3 includes an open-sourced AF_INET socket redirector for Linux, aka "vmsock". Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
