Steve Comstock writes: >And your Linux products port to z/OS how? If they're written in C or C++, you recompile them and run them on z/OS, probably with USS. IBM has considerably smoothed this path in recent times (64-bit compiler, dbx, Debug Tool V7, WebSphere Developer for System z V7, ....), and z/OS 1.9 introduces USS improvements that reduce the effort even more. A shout out also to Dignus and their compilers.
If they're written in Java you just run them. No changes required. (Write Java and you're already a z/OS developer.) If they're written in Perl you (probably) just run them. If they're written in PHP (for Apache) you (probably) just run them. I've just described the vast majority of Linux development scenarios. Now, to add spit and polish to your z/OS product you might want to package for SMP/E, cut appropriate SMF records, add ISPF configuration panels, include some sample JCLs, add explicit support for EBCDIC, etc. It depends on your product and your market. >It seems to me that IBM has pretty clearly shown their only long >term interest in z is to run Linux there. So that's why both of IBM's most recent specialty mainframe processors (zAAP and zIIP) only run z/OS workloads! (:confused:) If you think that's what's going on, why the orgy -- can I say that? -- why the orgy of new z/OS products from IBM? And why is IBM buying all these software companies (including Consul, Candle, Isogon, and Ascential among others)? Why is IBM pouring gob$$ of money into these companies' z/OS products? Why is IBM acquiring other software companies without z/OS products then bringing their products to z/OS, e.g. Webify (now WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS)? Why did IBM Rational just introduce the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for System z? Why, why, why? :-) Check me on this, please: I encourage anybody to go to IBM's announcement letters and run a comparison. How many software products does IBM have available today for z/OS, and how many were there, say, 7 years ago? Count them up then draw a bar graph. Even if you exclude previously existing acquired z/OS (then OS/390) products (the more limited number of OMEGAMONs that did exist then, Application Time Facility/TICTOC, ISPF Productivity Tool/SPIFFY, etc., etc.) you're going to find 2007's bar a *lot* higher than 2000's. And the stuff that makes it higher is extremely meaty, like WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Extended Deployment, WebSphere Developer for System z, Rational Performance Tester for z/OS, DataQuant for z/OS, and Tivoli Federated Identity Manager among many others. These are big, honkin', first class, state-of-the-art software products. And take an objective look at the pace, scope, and nature of improvements to existing products in those 7 years. Could anyone possibly argue that DB2 9 isn't an enormous leap in capabilities compared to DB2 V7, for example? Those are profoundly different products. Anybody got something they want on z/OS that's still missing? Go ahead and ask your IBM rep. At this torrid pace, you'll probably get it. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
