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In article <9008281913.AA06503@lilac.berkeley.edu> "Benjamin H. Cowan"
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        writes:
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>  I am looking for a program for an IBM pc that uses the IBM vtam LU6.2
        protocol
>that will xmit control commands (e.g. signon, signoff, etc.) to an IBM
        mainframe
>and receive data from the mainframe.

I have used IBM's APPC/PC product to write a gateway application that talked
to VTAM and CICS. APPC/PC is a (large 200K) TSR that has an assembler API to
the APPC verbs. LU6.2 is designed for multi-tasking environments. APPC/PC
forces you to write an "application subsystem" that loads and runs transaction
programs, and helps with configuration issues. I implemented transaction
programs as finite state machines with a single entry point that returned
control to the subsystem dispatcher after each message exchange. There was
only one EXE file. Be sure to order the programming guide from IBM with the
product as they are sold seperately.

What are xmit commands ?

OS/2 EE communications manager supports LU6.2 and has a much friendlier API.




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Mike Zintel
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