SNA client, possible?

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a few simple client calls in C, using a freely
available library, to a microsoft sna gateway. It seems once upon a
time there was the linux-sna project, and there also was sna support
in samba, but best I can tell everything has vanished.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
iksrazal

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:13:01 -0700, iksrazal wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to write a few simple client calls in C, using a freely
> available library, to a microsoft sna gateway. It seems once upon a time
> there was the linux-sna project, and there also was sna support in samba,
> but best I can tell everything has vanished.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. iksrazal

IBM supply a package called "Communications Server" which provides an SNA
capability. It's part of WebSphere. It's probably fairly expensive.

How well it will talk to Windows I don't know. It'll be intended primarily
for use with IBM mainframes, AS/400s and AIX. Also I have not used the
Linux version, only the AIX one.

I don't think there's anything in the public domain nowadays. There was a
company called Heterogenius doing some work in the area years ago but it
ceased to exist some time ago. I know some of them, but not the person
who was doing this work, and the others don't know where he is or what
he is doing any more.

Regards, Ian

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Ian Northeast wrote:
| On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:13:01 -0700, iksrazal wrote:
|
|
|>Hi all,
|>
|>I'm trying to write a few simple client calls in C, using a freely
|>available library, to a microsoft sna gateway. It seems once upon a time
|>there was the linux-sna project, and there also was sna support in samba,
|>but best I can tell everything has vanished.
|>
|>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. iksrazal
|
|
| IBM supply a package called "Communications Server" which provides an SNA
| capability. It's part of WebSphere. It's probably fairly expensive.

Apparently, there's a "90-day trial" version of Communications Server
available at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/netw...ver/downloads/

It looks like the sna-linux project (the old anu sna code) is closed; their
website redirect hangs and other links lead to dead ends.

| How well it will talk to Windows I don't know. It'll be intended primarily
| for use with IBM mainframes, AS/400s and AIX. Also I have not used the
| Linux version, only the AIX one.

~From Windows pov, it should look just like any other SNA connection. But this
is all theory; I can't say that I've used the Comms Server for Linux, but I
have used the CS for OS/2 successfully.

| I don't think there's anything in the public domain nowadays.

Somewhere, someone should still have the last GPL'ed version of the anu (ie
samba) SNA code. Getting it might be a problem, tho.

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