Re: NJE -- MIDRANGE-L

Are you sure this is not RJE?  RJE (Remote Job Entry) is a facility for
systems to connect to mainframe to transfer data and run processes on the
mainframe.  It is a rather old technology that goes back to the days of card
decks.  Typically an RJE station consisted of a card reader and a card punch
queue and a printer.  You prepared a card deck, that run a job on the
mainframe and it created some sort of output that was returned in the form
of punch cards or printer info.  The "modern day" implementations card
readers were replaced with putting the formatted 80 column cards in files
and the  ability to redirect the punch queue info to a file.  Of course you
could still direct output to the printer.
This used to be pretty common.  13 years ago when I did a lot of work on the
S/38 we used RJE to exchange files with mainframes, usually as a poor man's
proprietary EDI.  RJE was part of the S/38 OS (CPF) as far as I remember.
On the AS/400 support for RJE is a separate program product and is very
expensive (IMHO).  We had a client that had a customer that was still doing
RJE to a mainframe.  The cost of the RJE licensed program was about 15K for
a model 620.  It is not the easiest thing to configure, but not too bad...
helps if you have some knowledge of BSC or SNA communications.  (RJE will
run over both protocols).  The tragedy of this story is that after we
implemented it, the client's customer changed their mind after about 4
months and went to a standard EDI transmission using a VAN..... the 15K and
the development costs went down the toilet.
CJG

Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Gallagher <jmg1@ix.netcom.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 5:26 PM
Subject: NJE


>Hi all!
>
>I'm attempting to transfer a file to a mainframe.  They orignally said they
>could only take the file from an AS/400 using Connect:Direct (which we
don't
>have).  Now they say they can take it from us using NJE, if we have it.
Can
>anyone tell me how to verify if I have this option and has anyone had any
>experience using this?   We're on v4r3.
>
>TIA
>Jill
>
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