Yes, it's dead, but the functionality is available from other services as long as you have Internet access and your irewalls don't get underfoot.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Mark Jacobs <00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2025 5:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: history and evolution of INFO/MVS, INFO/VM-VSE etc. External Message: Use Caution Does anyone remember Info/Access? It allowed the systems programmer to formulate a query on your terminal and then it would initiate a dial-up connection, at least in my company, to an IBM database. When the results were available IBM would dial us back and return the results. Sort of like RETAIN for customers. We dropped the product when we migrated to MVS/XA because "free" BTAM was not supported under XA and we'd need to license BTAM/SP to continue to use the product. Since Info/Access was the only thing that needed BTAM in my organization, they didn't want to pay the monthly license charge for both products. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com On Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 11:08 AM, Mark S Waterbury <000001c3f560aac1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am curious about the history and evolution of INFO/MVS and related products > INFO/VM-VSE and INFO/MANager, > > Does anyone recall ever hearing anything about the history of the INFO/OZS > products? > > How and where was it developed? Who developed it? (which IBM offices or > labs?) etc. > > OZS seems to bear many similarities to IBM's internal RETAIN system used by > SEs, FEs and CEs in support of customer sites. > > Does anyone know if any of the design or ideas or code from the original > internal RETAIN system were used to develop INFO/OZS? > > I was just curious as to where INFO/OZS may have originated, how it was > developed, etc. > > Thanks in advance. > > All the best, > > Mark S. Waterbury > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
