Sounds like an ideal project for the OSDL system based at Marist. This  
system is for open source developers to bring code to Linux on z. I do  
the development of Mono on a SLES10 system they provisioned for me.

On Jun 2, 2010, at 16:14, "Chip Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:

> As many of you are aware, several years ago IBM gave the source code  
> of Object
> REXX to the Rexx Language Association to maintain and enhance the  
> language as an
> Open Source Project http://www.oorexx.org with a CPL 1.0 license.   
> It currently
> runs on:
>     * 32-bit Windows platforms; Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista  
> including server
> products
>     * 32-bit Linux distributions including RedHat, Fedora, Debian
>     * x86 and Sparc Solaris in 32-bit mode on 64-bit processors
>     * AIX 5.x in 32-bit mode
>     * x86 and PPC MacOS X
>     * z/Linux
>
> A recent inquiry to the ooRexx developers elicited this response  
> from David
> Ashley, the ooRexx Project Manager:
>
>   "Unfortunately, we lost our access to the zLinux system we used to  
> build the
>    4.0.0 version of ooRexx. If you know of someone who can grant us  
> access to
>    a zLinux partition somewhere, we would be glad to build a version  
> of 4.0.1
>    for zLinux. Note that we need root access to the partition so we  
> can
>    install the RPM for testing."
>
> Would anyone with the necessary resources be interested in helping  
> out?  If so,
> please contact David Ashley <[email protected]>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Chip Davis-

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