.PL63 .PN1 L..........................................R...L.....................A .FO3 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA>@@ [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ UNOTE 079 Page # of 1 Ref: UNOTE 079~ L....T..T..................................R...L.....................A From‰:‰ Customer Services 08 Feb 90~ L....T..T.....................................................R.L....A Re‰ :‰ Uniplex to IBM PROFS connection AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA>@@ [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ L.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T....R Engineers at IBM have successfully implemented a mail link between an AIX system running Uniplex and an IBM mainframe running PROFS. The following software products were used: L.......T....R..L.............R.................L.......T.......T....R Product Name Version@@ CCCCCCC CCCC CCCCCCC 5750-AAK~ VM/SP~ 5.0~ 5798-FAL~ TCP/IP for VM~ 1.2~ 5664-176~ PROFS~ 2.1~ 5601-061~ AIX~ 2.2.1~ Uniplex~ 6.01~ L.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T.......T....R In addition to these externally marketed products, a set of VM host procedures available for IBM internal use were used. These procedures are cataloged on the RTTOOLS disk as the REMAIL package. The function@@ IIIIIII of these procedures is to receive mail from the VM reader, reformat the messages into RFC 822 format and submit the reformatted message to the SMTP agent that is a part of TCP/IP under VM. This functionality is also available as part of the PROFS Extended Mail Facility (XMF). The following hardware products were used: IBM 4381~ IBM 8232 Lan Channel Attachment~ IBM 6150 Model 135~ IBM Token Ring~ Standard Tailoring of TCP/IP was performed on the RT running AIX. In addition, the steps required to activate the AIX mail system (described in Chapter 8 of "Managing the AIX Operating System") were performed. Then the REMAIL procedures were installed under a user account on VM. Finally, the uniplex UAP/umail/umail.rc file was tailored to allow mail to be addresses to the VM host. The following section was added: .FN FX-NORMAL .JN #SYSTEM~ NAME‰ = ausvm6;~ UMAIL‰ = n;~ ADDRESS‰= [USER]@ausvm6;~ COMMAND‰=mail [TO] < [LETTER];~ USERS‰ =ksmith;~ FORMAT‰ =unixmail;~ .JY .FN NORMAL Finally, the mail forwarding procedure was started on the host VM and a Uniplex alarm task (umd_runix) to monitor the AIX mail was started on the RT. See page 11-18 of the Uniplex Version 6.01 Administration Guide, or page 11-24 of the Version 7 Administration Guide. With this software setup, mail received at the host from either VM or PROFS users was automatically forwarded from the RT. Uniplex recognized the incoming mail, and allowed it to be read and dispositioned using the standard Uniplex commands. In addition, mail could be sent from Uniplex using the standard Uniplex addressing of hostname>username.@@ IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Note that, as this experiment was conducted by IBM personnel, Uniplex is unable to guarantee that the procedures described will work in all circumstances.