On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:03:16AM -0800, Seth Cohn wrote:
>
> from http://www.the400group.com
>
> This is a subscriber only article, so I'm forwarding it:
>
> Native Linux move to AS/400 not imminent
>
> Insider Weekly for AS/400 Managers
>
> IBMs announced strategy of making all of their
> servers fully Linux enabled will have little
> impact on the AS/400 in the short term.
>
> The AS/400 division currently has no plans to
> natively support Linux, according to remarks
> AS/400 gm Tom Jarosh made to business partners on
> a recent conference call. Presently, the AS/400 is
> able to support Linux clients and is also an
> integration partner with Linux servers.
>
> However, Jarosh did not rule out that someday the
> same PASE technology that enables Unix
> applications to run on the AS/400 will allow Linux
> to do the same.
>
> Linux is freeware
>
> Linux is a Unix like freeware operating system. It
> consists of open source code so that developers
> have access to and can update and add features to
> the operating system. It is popular for hosting
> Web servers and is increasing in popularity as a
> desktop OS.
>
> Linux runs on a variety of hardware, such as Intel
> and Macs. It also communicates to a variety of
> networks, including TCP/IP, Novell Netware,
> Microsoft Networking, and SNA. You can download
> Linux now (see Web site at end of article).
I'm wondering about SNA, I haven't heard any news since
(I guess) TurboLinux bought it to save it from a death in
infamy. At that point it was still vapourware. We have
SNA over TCP/IP, though. I'm not sure where to find SNA
applications, though.
>
> "Its more a server gone desktop than a desktop
> gone server," comments Jason Felice, a
> Linux-AS/400 developer in his spare time.
Hmm, not quite an AS/400 developer, just Linux. I'm
more of an AS/400 user - a bad one at that.
>
> Linux TN5250 tool available for AS/400
>
> The efforts to integrate Linux and the AS/400
> began about 18 months ago, led by a group
> independent of IBM. Thus far, their efforts have
> resulted in a TN5250 emulation tool. It is still
> evolving and being refined, with early beta
> testers reporting its prone to bugginess. They
> cite benefits of fast execution and the fact that
> you dont have to load features that you wont
> use, resulting in a smaller footprint.
>
> Felice says AS/400-Linux efforts are taking aim at
> file transfer and the equivalent of an AS/400 ODBC
> Linux driver. For more AS/400 specific Linux
> information, see www.blarg.net/~mmadore; for
> general Linux information, see www.linux.com.
Hmm, I was looking ahead quite a bit more than this
makes it sound, DRDA (the protocol the ODBC driver
implements) is a Big and Hairy Protocol (tm). Nonetheless,
I'd like to implement it.
-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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