Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l
Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:16:00 PDT
From:         Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
Subject:      UCLA/Mail (was Re: RSMTP aliases definition on MVS)

I said:
> > Does it get boring if I say that UCLA/Mail is a good solution to this?

Frank Vance <FrankVance@AIRGUN.WG.WAII.COM> said:
> Only if you do not tell me how to get it, how to get more information,
> and how much it co$t$ for commercial users to license.

File UCLAMAIL INFO on NETSERV has the info.  It looks like it hasn't
been updated for a while.  (Hey, UCLA!  Get with it.)  The current
release is $1000 for educational sites and $2000 for commercial sites.
Those are one-time charges.

Since many readers of this list may not know about NETSERV, I'll
include the file below, rather than describing NETSERV.

/Leonard

P.S.  Internet users can use userid@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU instead of
userid@UCLAMVS as shown in the file below.  I don't know the Internet
addresses for the other people mentioned.



                 UCLA/Mail Overview


Base Code V1M4 (10/24/88)
Pete Nielsen <CSYSPCN@UCLAMVS>:              University of California
Phone: (213) 825-7424                        Office of Academic Computing
                                             5628 Math Sciences Addition
                                             Los Angeles, California 90024
                                             USA

UCLA/Mail (Copyright, Regents of the University of California) is a mail
system for IBM's MVS operating system.  The eventual goal of UCLA's
product will be to provide local mail as well as to support mail and
file transfer to other RSCS/JES2 NJE nodes such as the BITNET network.

The mail system consists of a local post office, a TSO mail interface
command, JES2 modifications, and UCLA/IPC-370 (Interprocess
communications - cross memory).

User interfaces that have been developed for the mail system include:

1.  The line at a time interface provided by the TSO MAIL command

2.  A prototype ISPF dialog provided on the distribution tape.

3.  A dialog developed by Doron Shikmoni of Bar Ilan University, and
    available directly from him. (A more complete description follows)

4.  BEN: An ISPF dialog developed at UCLA as an interface for those
    people who might not use a computer except for acess to electronic
    mail.  It is available from UCLA for an additional fee, and is
    described more fully below.

The local post office owns the VSAM file used to contain local mail.  It
uses UCLA/IPC-370 to communicate with the mail interface routines for
TSO and WYLBUR.  The local post office also maintains a SNA/NJE
connection to JES2.

The SNA/NJE connection to JES2 allows the post office to simulate many
of the attributes of a VM node.  Mail sent out on the network looks to
VM nodes as if it were sent from a VM node.

The TSO interface routines support sending and receiving mail services.
They also check for unseen mail at logon, bypassing the user portion of
the BRODCAST dataset search.

The current TSO mail command operates in line at a time mode and
provides basic MAIL functions.  These include bi-directional mail
services from the terminal or files.  This basic interface also serves
as a tool kit to build other interfaces with CLISTs and/or ISPF (see
below).

The JES2 modifications, mostly in IBM exits, control the flow of and
mail/files in the NJE enviroment.  Routing of mail files to the post
office via SNA/NJE is done by JES2.

Requirements: (system)

   ASMH                          (V2 prefered, V1 and SLAC modification
                                 work, too, ASMF doesn't)

   MVS/SP  1.3.0                 (3.3.1)

   JES2/SP 1.3.0                 (1.3.0 ok if source adjusted as $NHD
                                 macro was changed by IBM) (2.2.15
                                 current)

   ACF/VTAM                      (tested 3.1; other versions should
                                 work) (ACF/VTAM V2 current)

   type 1 SVC                    (for IPC-370 -- dynamically installed,
                                 no gen required.)

   TSO                           (ran under several versions of TSO and
                                 TSO/E. Current is TSO/E Rel. 2)

UCLA/Mail is a copyrighted product of the Regents of the University of
California and is available for a fee.  We do not offer any type of
formal maintenance or support.  New versions of UCLA/Mail may, however,
be made available from time to time.

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The BEN (Copyright, Regents of the University of California) user
interface to UCLA/Mail:

This ISPF Dialog and support routines was developed at UCLA to provide a
convenient electronic mail interface to users who might not use a
computer for any other reason.  The emphasis is on ease of learning and
use rather than on "power".

BEN provides support for:

   Normal mail operations:       Send, Receive, Reply, Forward, Print,
                                 Save

   Folders:                      Mail may be saved in folders,  folders
                                 may be searched on contents.  Mail
                                 contained in folders may be forwareded
                                 and replied to.

   Address Book:                 A fullscreen interface is provided to
                                 allow the user to update/maintain their
                                 NAMES.TEXT dataset of
                                 nicknames/distribution lists.

   Online Directory:             Users may interactively add/change
                                 their entry in the online directory,
                                 which may then be used by other users
                                 to find their electronic address.

   Included with the distribution is a Macintosh diskette containing a
   Microsoft WORD version of our users manual.

   BEN is less flexible than the ISPF dialog developed by Doron Shikmoni
   described below, but it is easier to learn for the non PDF literate,
   and contains some features not available in that dialog.

   BEN is built "On top of" UCLA/Mail, and the installation instructions
   assume that UCLA/Mail has already been installed on the system.

   If you obtain BEN from UCLA, you will automatically receive
   UCLA/Mail, and UCLA/Mail is included in the price quoted for BEN

   Requirements:

   TSO/E Rel. 4

   ISPF V2.3

Questions should be addressed to Pete Nielsen, at the
address(s) given at the beginning of this document.
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ISPF-Dialogue for UCLA/Mail V1M3:

Doron Shikmoni <P85025@BARILAN>:     Bar Ilan Univerisity
                                     Computing Center
                                     Ramat Gan
                                     Israel

                                     Phone: +972 3 718514

General:

   This ISPF dialog is distributed on an as-is basis, without any
warranty whatsoever to its correctness or to the results of its
operation. It was written primarily for the user community in Bar Ilan
University and is in operation there. Efforts were made, however, to
eliminate local dependencies. I hope the latter are (at least) minimal.

   The dialog is distributed as one dataset (ISPFLIB) for ease of
installation, maintenance and mobility.

 Requirements:

   TSO/E Rel. 2

   ISPF V2

Good Luck. Please report any difficulties to me. Doron

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Modifications and enhancements to UCLA-Mail V1M4:

Peter Sylvester <GRZ027@DBNGMD21>:   GMD-Z1 Bereich Bonn
                                     Riemenschneiderstr. 11
                                     D-5300 Bonn 2
                                     Fed. Rep. of Germany

                                     Phone: +49 228 81996 45

During the past three years many people have developped
modifications and additions to UCLA/Mail. I have collected a lot
of them and tried to combine them.  Major parts of the enhanced
functionality is now covered by new features in V1M4 of
UCLA/Mail. Therefore I have discontinued to maintain the software
for V1M3, but....

.... the OFC component of UCLA/Mail400 (see next paragraph) is free for
all V1M4 installations.  It contains all those modifications that I had
collected for the V1M3 version of UCLA/Mail, and which have not yet
become part of the standard functionality.

A short list of major additions which are not described by a phrase like
"general X.400 support" is:

- outgoing NETDATA format (originally developped by Lutz Weimann ZIB)
- bulletin boards
- RACF access checks

- outgoing PROFS format (this is a new feature frim Mike Stein)
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UCLA/Mail400:


UCLA/Mail400 and ISPF/Mail400 are enhanced versions to support
an X.400 gateway. This product has been developed at GMD Bonn
as a cooperation between Softlab Munich and GMD Bonn sponsored by
the Verein zur Foerderung eines deutschen Forschungsnetzes (DFN).
UCLA/Mail400 is based on V1M4 of UCLA/Mail, and on Doron Shikmoni's
ISPF user agent.

Further information is available from:

Martin Wilhelm  <WILHELM@ZPL.GMD.DBP.DE>       DFN-Verein
                                               Pariser Strasse 44
                                               D-3000 Berlin 15
                                               Fed. Rep. of Germany

Phone: +49 30 884299 30
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU