Re: ldap on mainframe?

Mark Smith ([email protected])
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:13:28 -0400

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>From: [email protected] (Mark Monninger)
> To: [email protected]
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> We have some interest in acessing our X.500 directory from our IBM mainframes
> Does anyone know if ldap has been ported to either IBM VM or MVS? Or know of
> any other ways to acess the directory from there?
>
> I would think only the ldap libs would be necessary. We could write the other
> pieces ourselves. We do have TCP/IP on both VM and MVS and I understand that
> it does support sockets.

I don't know of anyone having ported our LDAP libraries to a mainframe
environment, but I doubt it will be a difficult task if you have a good
BSD sockets library (and even if you don't, it shouldn't be too hard --
the networking code in libldap and liblber is fairly self contained).

-Mark

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