On Friday, 07/30/2004 at 02:17 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have lots of VS COBOL or COBOL II programs, you may also want to > consider whether you should use CMS COBOL instead of COBOL on Linux. The > CMS COBOL compilers run fine on IFLs. It'd take a special bid from IBM, > but that's not a big deal these days, they're used to it. It'd be a lot > less conversion work, and the debugging tools are MUCH better on CMS. > You'd also still have the ability to read z/OS datasets directly w/o > going through the NFS overhead. We would most likely reject such a request. We're flexible about software that is used to meet your systems management and productivity needs, but running COBOL applications to process business data is outside the bounds of what an IFL was designed to do (run Linux apps). Read z/OS datasets directly? <delicate cough> Use caution. It certain environments it creates a security problem, not to mention possible data integrity issues. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
