I have an application that requires a drive mapped from a Windows 2000 server to an IBM mainframe as well as another mapped from the mainframe back to the Windows 2000 server. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Also is there any way to accomplish this in the background, i.e., without having an account logged onto the Windows server continuously? Any help would be appreciated.
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Mainframe connectivity
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You want to activate and setup NFS (network file sharing) on the mainframe. It uses Unix system services under OMVS.
It is not a trivial setup. You will want to get on the IBM site and read the documentation on setup. It DOES work and I recommend you use GIGABIT Ethernet over OSA adapters on the mainframe.
It is not a trivial setup. You will want to get on the IBM site and read the documentation on setup. It DOES work and I recommend you use GIGABIT Ethernet over OSA adapters on the mainframe.
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Thank you for the help. Their site does go into quite a bit of detail concerning how to set it up, but haven't found an answer for my last question. Will it maintain a connection in the background or does my Window server need to be logged in to access the mapped drive? Thank you again for any help you can provide for me.
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