> >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.
Spoken like someone who's never actually tried it. There are things that port easily and things that don't. In my own (hands on) experience it isn't nearly as easy as the glossies would have you believe. Particularly with respect to code-pages, character sets etc. > If they're written in Java you just run them. No changes required. Again, mostly true, but not entirely. There are differing assumptions about the "shape" of the environment. Getting the JVM to run jar files originating from off platform is almost always entertaining. > 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 have no idea about Perl. Getting Apache to run on z/OS was a far from trivial exercise. It can be done of course, but you end up having to make lots of changes to get it to run well. > Now, to add spit and polish to your z/OS product you might want to package for > SMP/E, cut appropriate SMF records <...> Again, not exactly a trivial exercise. All of the vendors have people who do that for a living and an investment in related tools to make it tractable. That's not an easy feat for the one man band. Virtually all of them would just deliver via IEBCOPY load/unload. > 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. Yeah right. None of us ever actually talk to IBM... CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
