> Surely you jest!!! Well, no, actually.
> Using Linux to build a TPF system was something IBM 'forced' onto the TPF > users despite their kicking and screaming to the contrary. Just ask anyone > of the TPF users how much they like using Linux to build their TPF > systems. Curious. The TPF people I come into contact with on a semi-regular basis seem to like it a lot. May be industry specific; dunno. > Why expend all the energy, money and manpower to build all of the > emulation requirements you mention in another platform when you already > have the real thing now - and they work! To be blunt: because IBM is not-so-gradually killing CMS's ability to host application workload by means of starvation. No VSAM, no updated compilers other than C, no tooling that is not absolutely necessary to maintain CP equals no capability to continue to host commercial applications. The writing is on the wall. Ultimately, I'm trying to answer the question: if you have CMS-oriented users today, where are they going to go? How are you going to get them there? We've got plenty of evidence that TSO certainly isn't it. What are your choices, and how do you salvage as much of the existing already-built-and-paid-for business logic as you can? I'd rather start working on answers to these questions *before* I have to do it in an emergency fire-drill mode. I think it's fair to ask IBM to help us find those answers if they're going to break our toys, so I'd like to tell them what we need so they can work with us to find an answer.
