On 14Jan28:1142-0700, Mark Post wrote: > The U.S. Postal Service migrated a good part of > their CICS workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server > on System z, running on an IFL. I'm not familiar with > all the technical details of how it was done, but Mark > Neft of Accenture has presented on the topic at SHARE > multiple times. (He _was_ involved in the project.) > I do know they were using Microfocus COBOL for the > application code. Not sure how the CICS piece was > replicated/replaced. > > http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/topic=302&sid=8747
MF COBOL is not your father's COBOL. It has language extensions that, among other features, permit the programmer to do anything in COBOL that can be done in C. This is why the MF compiler itself is written in MF COBOL and is no sluggard. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
