Fin

To my few and loyal readers,

I will no longer be updating this blog. I have enjoyed writing and learning all about mainframes, but both the universe and IBM decided it was time for me to move onto bigger and better things. I, like many other IBMers, have been 'resource action-ed' (ie, laid off). Rather than get another job in the industry and thus expose myself to future resource actions, I have decided to go back to school and get my phd, with a focus on the social and ethical implications of the creation of artificial intelligence.

I truly hope this blog saves you some of the pain and trouble I experienced when learning about z/OS, and please feel free to post or contact me if you have questions about z.

cheers

David

HOW TO GET A WORKSTATION APPLICATION TO INTERFACE WITH Z/OS

I hope this post saves you some aggravation. If you are creating an application and need to interface with z/OS via TCP/IP, there IS an API for that. The book you want is called "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference" and can be found here. Note - depending on the age of this post, you may want to find a more recent version of the pub. The link takes you to communication pubs for z/OS v1r12.