-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z
I'd like to draw IBM-MAINers' attention to the latest Mainframe Blog po= st, specifically this one: http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/todays-potpourr.html and specifically item #4. I'm always interested in hearing about "bett= er mousetraps," even "old" ones, concerning migration of other mainframes = to IBM System z. I'm getting a lot of questions about that lately. As sa= id, blatant advertising is no problem with me if it's good stuff that would= help improve the migration experience. <SNIP> WANG/VS to z/OS: Let the PC handle the WP aspect and let z/OS handle the DP aspect. Don't spend a million US$ on trying to migrate this. WANG downloaded microcode to their workstations to change them from Word Processing to Data Processing. There was no similar functionality under S/370/ESA (back when I was doing this). WANG machines implemented PD (Packed Decimal) while being ASCII. Conversion to EBCDIC is fairly straight forward. And IFF I remember correctly, FP on WAND/VS boxes was the same as used on S/360 FP. Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
