Your COBOL programs can be made web aware through the CICS Web Support (CWS). CWS comes delivered with CICS TS 1.1.1. Unfortunately it takes a little philosophy change on the development end. There are vendor tools available to mask that to various degrees. But either way, it is a ways off topic for this list.
On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:09 am, you wrote: > 1) the answer to question one is, we don't know. We have little batch > processing and would like what little we have to be real-time, but that is > another goal. So, moving out of COBOL and off the mainframe has been part > of the discussion. But, we have a new 390 machine, so it would be a shame > to not use it. This is a VM/VSE environment. > > 2)They want the windows application look, they want to get away from the > 3270 green screen look. > > 3)we have low java expertise on site. If fact that is why I think I am > having problems communicating this, because I am a mainframe person by > background. > > 4)And of course this is a no/low cost situation. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/03 04:26PM >>> > > Ah, now that makes more sense. That narrows it does a lot. By the way, that > is really a good way to go, narrow the applications down to one or at most > two platforms and go from there. > > A couple more quick questions: > > (1) Where do you want these common applications to be? On the mainframe (in > COBOL?), or under CICS control, or do you want to shut down the mainframe > and migrate to an alternate platform? > > (2) Do you want the applications to look like Windows applications, or like > CICS "green screen" apps, a Web Application or some combination? If in > combination, roughly what percent goes where? > > (3) Do you have Java expertise on site, or wish to develop Java expertise? > > (4) Is this a budgeted project, or something you have to pull off as a > (no/low) cost demo to provide proof of concept? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diana Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: DB2 UDB and Websphere > > > Okay, here is the situation, we are exploring alternatives. We have DB2 > UDB running on a linux server. We have legacy systems running under > cobol/cics/vsam on a 390. we have access applications with access databases > on servers. We want to get to a common ground. we have loaded one of our > access databases into DB2 UDB, we have also downloaded some of our legacy > vsam files into DB2 UDB. Now the question is, what do we use as a common > front end. We want to get to some type of web base portal type situation. > I am not sure that I am explaining this very well. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/03 03:34PM >>> > > What in particular do you want to do with it? If you are using it in > client/server mode, then Access, and all that Windows stuff work just fine. > If you want a Web based interface, and WebSphere is too expensive, then > there are a few dozen other application servers out there ranging from BEA > down to ZOPE and even (gasp!) just using CGI based programs and HTML. :) > > Honestly, I did not mean that to sound as smug as it does, but without a > better idea of what you are trying to accomplish, it is like shooting in > the dark, at least for me. :) > > -Paul > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diana Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:42 AM > Subject: DB2 UDB and Websphere > > > We have just set up DB2 UDB in the linux environment. We are looking for > a new front-end. Thinking about Websphere, we are currently using > Microsoft Access. I would appreciate any thoughts or solutions that have > worked for anyone. > > Diana Reynolds > City of Rochester -- Rich Smrcina Sr. Systems Engineer Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
