Well, some general considerations I know of are:

1. J2EE apps are usually ok.  Unless they exploit something in Sun Java that is 
different in IBM Java.  We've not had issues, but some college I know has not 
been that lucky.  If they've written the java program themselves, changes may 
not be that difficult. If it's a large package from some open source thing or 
something, it may be more challenging.  We've had vendors bring their J2EE 
banking packages to z with no issues.

2. The platform isn't binary compatible with Intel.  You will have to 
recompile.  Hopefully they have source.  If so, no big deal. 


3.  There are endian (little big) considerations.  You can go google that for 
more info.


Hope that is semi useful.


Marcy 
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lu GL Gao
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Migrating UNIX application to z/Linux

We have some clients who have plan to migrate there applications running on
UNIX to z/Linux. We have not communicate with those clients yet, so I don't
have detail info.
Before that, I just seek if there are some general considerations about
migration, so that I can have good preparation for our first met with
clients.

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