> Also, does anybody have a Web application running on > Linux/390 which uses > CGI to get data from the z/OS side of the house? Especially > communicating > with a CICS region.
Yes. Our CICS guy wrote a COBOL/CICS CGI app that reads, modifies and displays data from a VSAM file. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me, however, the aren't many CICS/COBOL applications folks left here that can take advantage of it. I use a CTC to connect an OS/390 lpar with a Linux machine under VM and serve up the pages through Apache using a redirect to the CICS Transaction Web Server. We also have a guy using Natural as an HTML parser on the OS/390 side. He adds a step to existing JCL, parses a would-be hard copy report, stores his parsed file in a directory on the USS side of the house and I share that directory using SAMBA runing on USS (NFS works too) with one of the Linux machines and serve the file up with Apache. The same guy used some Software AG java workbench tools to write an applet that runs on a Linux machine to make calls, through EntireX and NatRPC, to Natural programs that read Adabas data. I believe (but am not sure) that because of the hard CTC connection everything is swimmingly fast. Matt Lashley State of Idaho
