Indeed it is :-)
--Jim--
James S. Tison
Senior Software Engineer
TPF Laboratory / Architecture
IBM Corporation
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Paul Raulerson
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<grin> You are about to be amazed. I am and obviously I don't know
everything there is to know about the new Tachyon stuff. I am
looking at the VSAM emulation and it appears to be single user, but wow, is
it nice stuff. :)
Paul
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From: "Ledbetter, Scott E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: VSAM or Lightweight Database?
> Ooops.
>
> The previous message was intended to be a private reply, but as long as
it
> is public, perhaps David can give everyone a short message illustrating
how
> his Tachyon products can be used in S390 Linux-OS/390 cross-development.
>
> We (STK) have been using the Tachyon Assembler for several years to
assemble
> S390 code on Solaris. I hadn't looked at the Tachyon site in a while,
and
> there is even more good stuff available.
>
> Scott Ledbetter
> StorageTek
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ledbetter, Scott E
> Sent: September 18, 2002 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: VSAM or Lightweight Database?
>
>
> David,
>
> It was good to run into you at SHARE. Hope all is well.
>
> Tachyon OS?? You have been very busy, haven't you?
>
> Is this somehow based on Hercules, or is it something you've conjured up
> yourself? I looked at the web page, and it looks intriguing
>
> Scott Ledbetter
> STK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: September 17, 2002 7:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: VSAM or Lightweight Database?
>
>
> Paul Raulerson wrote:
> > I'd like to explore moving some OS/390 VSAM files to Linux on the 390.
> > Can anyone point me to some appropriate resources? I would like to stay
> > with VSAM (ISAM, C-ISAM, etc.) files, since some of the code that uses
> > those files is written in assembler. Record locking would be necessary
> > however.
>
> Paul,
>
> You can use the Tachyon z/Assembler to reassemble your programs and
> produce ELF objects to run on Linux for S/390 or zSeries. You would
> need to supply replacement macros for the ACB, GET, PUT, RPL and other
> VSAM services.
> You might also look at running your programs on the Tachyon Operating
> System to provide VSAM emulation.
>
> David Bond - Tachyon Software LLC - http://www.tachyonsoft.com
>
