RE: NJE -- MIDRANGE-L



I thought it was RJE also, but the person I was going over this with was
sure it was NJE for teh 400.  I've done some BSC communications before, but
usually using an RPG pgm to transmit the data.  According to the company I'm
trying to set this up with, that's not an option.

 > 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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