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From: "Steve Comstock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SPAM] z/OS + TSO + ISPF versus z/VM + CMS + ISPF
Raymond Noal wrote:
Dear Lists:
I am cross posting this question to the z/OS and z/VM lists due to the
nature of my question, which is - Will z/OS, TSO ISPF panels and dialogs
work under the z/VM, CMS ISPF
program product? Is there any degree of compatibility between the two
ISPF products? Is there any migration/conversion effort involved in
going from one to the other? (primarily from the TSO to CMS based ISPF
platform)
Most, if not all, of the panel definitions are likely to
work. Your driving execs must be REXX not CLIST, of
course. If your execs issue TSO commands, you will have
to replace them with equivalents. The syntax of EXECIO
is somewhat different, as I recall.
I'll have to disagree with my friend Steve here. If your panels in ISPF are
current, they are likely to contain incompatible syntax and features, as
ISPF on the z/OS side has continued to develop while ISPF on z/VM has been
functionally stabilized for at least the past decade. I don't believe that
anyone would have a list of z/OS features unsupported under z/VM, as that
list would be vast. Panels are only part of the problem, there have also
been massive changes to skeletons and tables. Unless your z/OS ISPF app is
legacy (10 years or more old), I doubt it would run under z/VM.
Good luck,
Tom Conley
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