On 28 Jan 2014 10:42:22 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>>> On 1/28/2014 at 12:57 PM, JT <jethin...@aol.com> wrote: >> From my manager. >> Is it possible to run CICS (executing COBOL application code) on an IFL? > >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.
They may have been able to migrate the CICS code to Apache or some other web server. There also may be a Linux version of Uni-CICS or its descendant. Clark Morris > >http://www.share.org/p/do/sd/topic=302&sid=8747 > > >Mark Post > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
