For Perl to be installed on a traditional mainframe OS such as OS/390 or z/OS you would need to have the Unix Systems Services Running (formerly OpenEdition, aka the BPX* tasks). To build Perl from source you would need a licensed C compiler, which costs extra for z/OS. There are detailed build instructions on the web at:
OS/390 and z/OS: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/README.os390.html BS 2000: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/README.bs2000.html VM/ESA: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/README.vmesa.html For linux on S390 you would likely need to follow the usual linux build instructions for using gcc to compiler perl. Perhaps the page at: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/INSTALL.html would provide more useful information for just about any Unix like OS. I am not sure if there is a page that details the minimum hardware requirements. I know that Perl on OS/390 runs on a P390 PC <-> CMOS S390 machine as well as bigger boxes such as a 9672 from IBM. Your Any2XML product would likely need to be made aware of the differences between ASCII based encodings and EBCDIC ones. For that information consult: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlebcdic.html I hope that helps. Peter Prymmer "Ranga Nathan" <Ranga@gorelianc To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> e.com> cc: 08/16/2002 08:07 Subject: Perl installation question - basic PM Please respond to ranga What is the minimum requirement for Perl to be installed on MVS, VSE/VM etc. Is there a web page for it? Or would someone kindly enlighten me? We have developed a product called Any2XML in Perl that ideally I would like to run on the mainframe. Currently it runs on LAMP (P for Perl) ---Closing the information gaps----- Ranga Nathan, Reliance Technololgy http://goreliance.com
