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From: Dan Marshall
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:00

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If you mean "RPC" as in DCE compliant (IDL compilers, etc.), then
OpenEdition/MVS is required. If you mean generic "rpc", there are vendors
who enable running a CICS transaction from a PC platform, but they are
hardly "open" solutions.
We recently decided to create our own tools which allow Visual Basic
programs to use an RPC call to call an IEF generated CICS transcation.
The VB programmer sees the call as a VB function call (RPC client) to an
AIX server with the interface defined through IDL. Behind the scenes, we
wrap the CICS transaction within the AIX server code. This is an example
of a home grown solution.
There is also a vendor called Netwise that allows IDL to define a PC to
MVS/CICS "rpc" which is proprietary, but nonetheless looks like a nice
technical solution.

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On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Michael Quinlan wrote:

> My company is looking for information about using RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
> to
> communicate between Windows NT and MVS/CICS. I would appreciate comments from
> anyone who has information on this, and expecially from anyone who has this
> type
> of connection working.
>
> Some questions we have are:
>
> Are the Windows NT and MVS versions of RPC compatible? That is, can they
> interoperate?
>
> What versions of MVS support RPC?
>
> What products (IBM or non-IBM) support RPC on MVS and CICS?
>
> What communications protocols (TCP/IP, SNA, etc.) are supported by RPC?
>
> Thanks,
>
> +--------------------------------------------+
> |              Michael Quinlan               |
> |             mikeq@primenet.com             |
> |       http://www.primenet.com/~mikeq/      |
> +--------------------------------------------+
>

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