Barton Robinson wrote:
Velocity Software is announcing zPRO, a portal for z/VM systems
management.
Barton, from the description on the cited page, you go well beyond
what SMAPI does (out of the box) ... Since it's a native app, do you
use SMAPI or do your own protocol or some mixture of same?
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My take on "Why does SMAPI exist" is shaped by experience with i/OS +
JT400 / JTOpen.
JTOpen offers pretty complete programmatic operations access to the
i/Series. IBM was
enthusiastic enough to provide an
overly-complete-to-the-point-of-bloating Java client
API for the TCP/IP services that provi
David Boyes wrote:
Yes, there is. There are a lot of things where Linux or other systems don't
have effective API access to CMS or CP functions yet, but CMS (and REXX)
does.
If Rexx does, SMAPI does. Writing a SMAPI function and adding
it to SMAPI is not terribly difficult.
If SMAPI has it, Lin
Alan Altmark wrote:
And, yes, there are non-IBM exploiters of SMAPI.
Well, I'd like to get in on the exploitation :)
I wrote PigIron not because I have any use for it, but because I like
VM and the VM community and a friend said that an Open Source
VM GUI OpsNav might be interesting. Discoveri
Alan Altmark wrote:
As an aside, given the nature of the data flows, consider an option to
provide an SSL session to protect them.
PigIron supports SSL already. In the Builder you just check the SSL
checkbox.
In code, you set the SSL flag true. In JSON, you set the object member
"ssl" : tru
David Boyes wrote:
I really like what you've
done with PigIron, but I can't run it on CMS because we don't have a
supported Java.
I can see the fun in that, but is there really a use case? Nobody
(methinks) is sitting in front of a real 3270 using CMS anymore.
There's always a shell window som
Alan Altmark wrote:
On Friday, 01/16/2009 at 08:07 EST, Patrick Spinler
wrote:
Specifically, I'd like to be able
to remotely query various dirmaint functions for capacity reporting
purposes (e.g. dirmaint dirmap, dirmaint user nopass)
When SMAPI was originally written, it had a generic co
Patrick Spinler wrote:
Specifically, I'd like to be able
to remotely query various dirmaint functions for capacity reporting
purposes (e.g. dirmaint dirmap, dirmaint user nopass)
Ergo, I've looked at pigiron. Unfortunately, the SMAPI doesn't quite
fit what I'm wanting in this circumstance.
Do
PigIron the open source Java client for z/VM SMAPI has been downloaded many
times:
http://pigiron.sourceforge.net
I'm not getting any user feedback. It would be nice to hear from anyone who is
using PigIron, even
if it's only, "I can't get the @^#! thing installed!"
Having released th
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