Actually, I use Dovetailed Technologies' Co:Z line of products to do this sort of thing. I don't have a z/Linux system. We had an IFL back when we had a z890. But when we upgraded, management decided that it was unneeded and that paying maintenance on it was foolish, so we didn't get an IFL when we did a "swap out" to a z9BC (which we are still on). I do have a Linux/Intel desktop available (such as it is - very old, surplus PC). I have set up SSH on z/OS and Linux. This allows me to run jobs on z/OS which connect to a SSH session on the Linux system to run Linux commands there. Co:Z includes some Linux commands which use the SSH reverse tunnel to send/receive z/OS UNIX commands and other data.
I actually use the above to run a job on z/OS which sends our weekly z/OS SYSLOG data (a text file) to my Linux system. Which does some processing on it to make it more readable. And extracts data which it then sends back to z/OS. The next step in the job then uses a free email product (XMITIP) to put that data into an email and send it to others in my group. Of course, this all being done in a "skunkworks" environment means that it can't be depended upon because the company is still shrinking. And no one knows how much longer I, or others, may be around. I'm basically the only "mainframer" who actually enjoys using UNIX (z/OS and Linux). On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Rick Troth <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > I would suggest more use of (what I call) "real client/server". There > have been several implementations of remote procedure magic. But things > don't have to be so complicated. Use TCP/IP, connect to a server on the > target (eg: z/OS calling Linux), git er done. > > Meanwhile, consider SSH. You have strong clients and servers for both > Linux and z/OS. The communication is secured. You get complete > integrity of the "other" environment (no matter which direction you > drive from). You get clean execution of the intended command. Works. > > > > -- > > Rick Troth > Senior Software Developer > > Velocity Software Inc. -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
