MVS as LAN file server

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From: Alex Kay
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 07:23

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IBM  added the ability to allow MVS Hosts to act as NFS File
 Servers in a TCP/IP LAN environment.

 The major elements required to implement this function for MVS are
 DFP V3, DF/HSM and TCP/IP support in MVS.

 The theory is that MVS can now be used as a super fileserver and
 archive manager for all those Sun Workstations and other UNIX servers
 out there in TCP/IP LAN territory.

 We have
 LAN system based around Sun Servers, Apple Macs and Ethernet TCP/IP,
 and have begun to realise that managing the backup and archive
 requirements of this creation may be better controlled from the MVS

 Any experience in  similar environment.

 How did it work, what other products (IBM or Third Party) did they
 discover, investigate to provide this type of function for a LAN from
 MVS.

 Any and all information totally appreciated.

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