Implementing MVS under *NIX is easy - run Hercules/390 and MVS 3.8j under it. I do it for "fun" at home. Now, writing something so that a z/OS program could run on a *NIX platform would be something else. And it is easier to simply recompile your applications to run under *NIX or Windows by getting a compatible COBOL compiler. There are vendors who do that. We had one in, where I work a few years ago, who said that they could convert __ALL__ our source in all languages (COBOL, HLASM, EasyTrievePlus - batch and CICS) to a .NET platform and convert our JCL to Windows "powershell" or Perl scripts. They said that they would guarantee identical results to what we currently get and do it at a lower cost, equal or faster processing, and as good or better reliability. But the cost, up front, was too great - it was a 3 year "break even". Hum, that was about 4 years ago. We still have vendors saying they can do this conversion. Now with a 2 year (or less) break even. But the 1.5+ million initial cost is stopping us. Management here is lusting to eliminate the z system entirely. But is unwilling to pay very much to do so. They want to replace the z in a "swap out" so that "all of a sudden" they are on Windows instead of z/OS for no conversion cost (or at least a < 1 year break even).
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 08:42 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2011 01:56:33 -0500, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> wrote: > > >It's 01:30 local time. I can't sleep. So I'm likely insane. > > No comment. :-) > > > But I'm > >wondering if anybody knows of an __easy__ way to send z/OS SYSLOG > >messages to the UNIX syslog daemon? Sending the UNIX syslog daemon > >output to the z/OS SYSLOG is simple - log to the /dev/console UNIX > >"file". > > > <snip> > > Instead of running UNIX under z/OS, I think you need to start working on > running MVS under *nix. If you start writing it now, you may have it > done before you retire. I'm sure Paul G. will be more than happy to > help. :-) > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > mailto:m...@mzelden.com > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
