On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:52:10 -0700, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Raymond Noal wrote: ...- 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.
Or assembler. Agreed they will work, and there is a high degree of compatibility, if the dialogs are not using or sacrifice modern features. My concern would be how well-supported is ISPF under z/VM. Another might be "ISPF on VM is a expensive add-on, and is not all that common in VM shops, so if you're designing a product with ISPF/VM as a prereq, you're operating at a disadvantage." (- David Boyes) http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0404&L=vmesa-l&P=47649 Our experience with TSO macros (e.g. IKJPARS) was that they seemed flakey and were probably back-level under (z/)VM. If you're dealing with dataset names, you would need to adjust to filename filetype filemode, instead. I wouldn't expect to successfully port existing ISPF tables between z/OS and z/VM, but within each you could build new ones. I think XEDIT is preferred over ISPF in z/VM. Here is an interesting IBM patent in this area: United States Patent 5724559 Method for displaying ISPF panels in a VM non-ISPF environment ... http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5724559-claims.html Regards, Mike Baldwin Cartagena Software Ltd. www.cartagena.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
