RE: Bisync support - V5R3 and beyond

I'm with Jim. I, too, am not aware of any IBM plans to drop bisync in the near 
future. Not to say they don't exist but I have not heard that rumor or read 
anything about it. SNA is another story. Here are a couple of related links I 
have that still work, although my IBM links now yield 404:

http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.6b24cce2

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh050905-story01.html

Have a good weekend, everybody.

-Marty

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date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:14:43 -0600
from: Jim Oberholtzer <JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Bisync support - V5R3 and beyond

<snip>
I heard a rumor that bisync support is going away in the near future
(V5R4?). Has anyone else heard this?
</snip>

In going over the announcement notes for V5R4, I have not found any 
official statements from IBM regarding the end of support on bisync.  V5R4 
should still support it, although I cannot verify it since I have no one 
to try it with.  Since the next Version/Release should be about 24 months 
out, you should be good for a bit yet.

A better questions is, why bisync?  Most of the banks and governments that 
use bisync have moved to another really old transport called TCP.... ;-)

Jim