Google for "look and feel lawsuit". It's illegal to run z/OS on an unlicensed platform; it is perfectly legal to implement the z/OS interfaces that you need. How well, e.g., UNICICS, runs is a separate issue.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Peter Baumann [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 11:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Aw: Re: LzLabs As their own release says, it's only 2.5k MIPS of batch COBOL Swisscom was going to EOL anyway. Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like insane. They call it re-hosting. IMHO you can re-host something written to open standards. Otherwise you have to deal with legal issues and since it's all propritary and patented they must have reverse engineered entire zOS. Can you do it without infringing on patents ? And even if you can, how many man years would you need ? Harsh reality these days is funding is becoming scarce. Peter Baumann Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. April 2020 um 17:11 Uhr Von: "Ed Jaffe" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: LzLabs On 4/28/2020 7:49 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1fJ3AUtOvdHj2AT-7nLBrnofcM6N4ZvkNAxW60pdZsscu7wU1E7MvSMi29LU_b_AIjI-RgzKsHPVhD75tlZFn0uRlsVP3TJ_IoOHPmsCf7zSI6Tzx96p1dmhswvdxKEsrpl60eog-Smczm80OLQ4mFTmijvfzn-syqOicRlO7C4j2y2eNT7UrTmGSlAjFF9Or-ydJ07nMacCFGXCa-XtWafBWjMpDKbFNiz1TH6KS91rOikBC9ZLF_EdXTTYPGxmLHyEARkPD109T4Bgph_2yD3iIQzEnjUb6m9cgazHysSRvawH65WIB78RVCdkDxANKywXLsx_ZPLL22wuc_1_p0zkHZ1fDNiojHtfbE4gMmVG7WNgPDFebZdlB1B0B5RtcTJkLR9IJbjf-SXn8GJGrO6X__Hrwy1n_oaTVaEBdEivjW80XZSJV1bnf75Jmnl1B/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2019%2F05%2F16%2Flzlabs_kills_swisscoms_mainframes%2F Re: the lay-off, now is great time to trim workforce "fat" and/or "dead wood" with many governments providing unheard of subsidies for the unemployed... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://secure-web.cisco.com/1khnmy-BW5oPhKnvZJ0zqGFDAauDah0-v2UsxWUZy7Inek3v7PfY2PI7F32AEpkpXYqC2PPTyuhVr6oqrbFYJz9vF8RvK86nVk5AWVmOZaeuGSZkszSuoaRAmM05DkOsRrJwQVHJdT6JTocnG4u_SqAR5DbgwbS0AOaqQsLUXcAkHeajSQyeyDmhjwYwW1lVanhrNoQjYOA49f-G2KNRBS04deaiDhnYYqE0571CX9Gz-_5FwEa5WqM03R4opkYX-XgYCfYAvxR0hVi-7Y_73tLVsqvejN_P4ZJA6NvHMthG4mEdkZWnc-UjrOcxjob0eD2vzpX1dErXDy3SrW0WW1mN4Fxe9UHunog11B1S5f4lR7tXoSFN6QSTsivE6JRSmpJQgXnwDJmn-aFQ0ukLJZOtz5ok_tHjg1IuijkA9NWwzVMf6jPgxOH-iB6yX7XN3/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.phoenixsoftware.com%2F[https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
