Kenneth I would also be interested in any other z/OS Java discussion groups. The one group I can refer you to is the z...@yahoogroups.com here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/z390/ This group has over 400 IBM mainframe system programmers on it following evolution of z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator which is written entirely in J2SE Java. It has been tested on Windows and Linux and requires J2SE runtime 1.6+. I am currently running it on J2SE 1.6.0_20 on both Windows Vista and Ubuntu LTS Linux. Most of the discussion is about HLASM and z/OS emulation support of services such as VSAM, CICS, DB2 etc, but occasionally we jump into discussions about the Java code in pz390.java which emulates all the problem state instructions in the POP manual. The mz390.java and az390.java macro assembler supports all the instructions in the POP including supervisor state instructions plus a set of commonly used MVS/zOS system service macros which map to z390 svc calls to java svc routines such as TIME, GETMAIN, FREEMAIN, OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE, GET, PUT, etc. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
