I am seeking for a way to start a Mainframe (MF) application from a (Windows-) PC. The Task is:

- preparing the results of a MF SQL into PC-Documents
- having a single PC-Application for, hmmm let's just say endusers
- not to touch the host manually via 3720-console

I am not allowed to have direct access from the PC to the Database, so I cannot use DBI::DB2.
The transfer of files is easily done by Net::FTP.

The Solution will be something
- send inputfile (e.g. Query) to the mainframe (FTP-Task)
- start a MF-Job (to execute the query) <<<==== lack of wisdom is here
- FTP resultfile to PC
- doing lots of lovely things with Perl

We have IBM Personal Communications on the PC, does anybody know about a Perl-Wrapper?
Does anybody has used Telnet for similar tasks?
Any other suggestions?

Thanks for your help

In reply to Access Mainframe from PC via Perl by Brutha

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