On 16Mar17:1037-0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > I notice they also claim > "no need for recompilation of Cobol or PL/1 application programmes, no > source code changes, or changes to operational procedures". > > So they have somehow managed to replicate the functional behavior of all > the SVC and PC interfaces and control blocks that application code might > be using in z/OS batch and CICS environments, to replicate the > functional behavior of I/O to data sets that batch jobs and CICS > transactions might be doing, to replicate all the CICS APIs and CICS > control blocks CICS applications might be using, to replicate all the LE > run time support needed to execute COBOL and PL/I programs in batch and > CICS, to replicate all the related DB2 functional APIs, and to emulate > the execution of z-architecture application program code in batch and > CICS environments, and to replicate operational interfaces. And since > security was "maintained", that implies they have also managed to > replicate the functionality of RACF for their batch, CICS, and DB2 > environments, and integrated that security somehow into the supporting > physical operating environment to secure the "mainframe" data from > external tampering. In other words, to do what they seem to claim, they > have re-implemented a significant portion of z/OS and some major > subsystems of z/OS for another hardware platform. All correctly and > without infringing on any IBM patents or licensing restrictions? And > have achieved reasonable transaction rates without sacrificing > "reliability, scalability , serviceability, and security" on hardware > platforms that have historically been less robust than z-architecture? > > Color me skeptical. > > They don't say no re-linking of load modules, which makes me suspect > that to be legal you would have to re-link and somehow replace any > linked-in LE run time modules, since those modules would be IBM-licensed > code. > > Even "stabilized" applications may require occasional minor changes > --e.g.,to adapt to trivial changes in local sales tax rates. Without a > mainframe compiler even a trivial change becomes a difficult load module > patch.
Queue the IP lawyers, and action! This looks to me a firm built to be acquired for a tidy lump sum payoff by the competition with subsequent euthanasia. I'll be slow to migrate off that proven decades-old mission-critical platform, that's for sure. -- <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
