Need INFO about possibilities of IBM Mainframe connection

[Andreas Pleschutznig]

Is there anyone out there, who can point me the possibilities of
UNIX(386) and XENIX(386) to connect to an IBM Host ?!

I will state the problem we have:

We have existing Hardware (386 AT) running either UNIX or XENIX and
for our new project it might be necessary to connect to an IBM Host.
(43xx, S3x). The problem is that we do not have any knowledge what
hardware and software is availaible on the market, doing that job.

Also there is another Problem as i am told: XENIX is said to have some
Software doing that job, but it requires that the XENIX machine is some 
kind of cluster controller to the IBM host, and that's what we cannot
be sure of. 

So if there is anyone knowing how to communicate and ftp files from and
to an IBM Host is greatly welcome.

Please send any articles to me directly by e-mail, and I will summarize
it to the net if that is of general interest.

tks (kopefully) in advance
andy
Micro Systems Software