On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:27:16 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
>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. <snip> I was joking of course, but I meant the latter. "Emulate" (?) an MVS environment under *nix. Call it "Unix MVS System Services", or just MSS for short. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] 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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
