Recognising that Unix is invading MVS sites like a plague, IBM Corp yesterday launched Intermix, a graphical user interface for Unix designed to make it easy to submit jobs and to access data on MVS machines or on other Unix workstations in networks using TCP/IP. It supports IBM’s own AIX, Sun Microsystems Inc’s Sol-aris and Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP-UX, and for example enables users to monitor and control batch submissions to MVS or another workstation, transfer files from MVS, and manage MVS files from their Unix workstation. It has two components, the File Manager for manipulation of MVS data sets, which hides many of the nuances associated with MVS, and the Application Monitor, for graphically submitting, manipulating and obtaining status about batch jobs under MVS or Unix. The one-time charge is $695 for one user falling to $382 per user for 250 concurrent users, available now.
