Am 19.03.2018 um 17:57 schrieb R.S.:
Bernd,
I know the installation and know people related to it.
Note: your 4381 was replaced with P/390 and after few years mainframe
completely switched off.
For my knowledge they have never used VSE in production.
What they used was ODRA emulator under z/VM.
ODRA is licensed clone of ICL 1900 with GEORGE3 operating system. It
was very popular in Poland.
BTW: at the time you also gave to MPK used tramway. (MPK is public
transportation company).
completely off topic:
this is a video of the used tramway type "we" gave to MPK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsHcF14fBs&feature=youtu.be
here in Arad, Romania (we did not only sell used tramways to Lodz,
but also to other countries, including Egypt).
Back to topic: on ODRA machine, there was a report generator language
called TABU.
I wrote a TABU to COBOL translator in Pascal, which I still have here
today.
I recently managed to compile this translator with my new Stanford
Pascal compiler;
the translator runs on MVS and VM (and Windows, and Linux).
so (in theory) old TABU reports could still be executed on every COBOL
system of today :-)
even on z/OS. The TABU language was not bad at all, much better than RPG
IMO.
Kind regards
Bernd
BTW2: MPK just bought several used tramways, I think it was from
Munich. New tramways are cery expensive (approx. 2 milion euro) and
used one are ~30 times cheaper. Like a mainframe ;-)
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