On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:48:32 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >> It’d be really slick if IBM reanimated the OMA/2 device with a native FICON >> adapter, even if it was just for this purpose. The ability to emulate a >> range of mainframe devices on commodity hardware has been really, really >> useful over the years. > >Ah, so that's what you meant. I hadn't inferred that from your earlier >post. > >As the original builder of the ADCD systems (originally created to >support P390s), I do know about AWSTAPE support (which was originally >written for the P390s). However, we do not, and have no plans to, >deliver the DVD files in AWSTAPE format. > >Were there hardware available to read the files we do supply on DVD so >they could be written to the z/OS UNIX file system, I would find that >interesting. > Some years ago, I mounted a CD containing a product (ours, not IBM's) on a desktop system with an FTP server and did RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. Successful experiment; never proved useful.
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