>Well, that's what I am attempting to do. Did I mention that the >vendor is IBM? And that the product is developed in the same >location as WLM? In Germany, no less?
Well, unfortunately, there are still too many people out there in software development that don't have a clue what z/OS UNIX really means. Porting software from one OS to another implies a certain level of knowledge on both OSs, IMHO. When porting to z/OS UNIX, there is yet another key player that needs to be factored in: MVS! Most ports probably are more or less easy to do. However, there are techniques that work perfectly in a "pure" UNIX but will fail miserably or become CPU hogs on z/OS UNIX because MVS was not designed to work that way. When porting big applications or servers to z/OS UNIX the developers must be willing to change the design here and there to cope with z/OS UNIX and MVS behaviour. This makes the difference between a successful port and a not so successful one. I'm *not* meaning to give offence to anybody! Since there *is* z/OS UNIX which *is* XPG compliant, there seems to be no need to know about the MVS part, so people don't get educated on MVS and, worse, are not even told to get advice from MVS people. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
