Re: CICS for the AS/400

Is it a fair assumption that every time you keyboarded CICS you meant CISC as 
opposed to RISC?  Or is CICS a valid acronym for something unrelated to CISC?

I believe that CISC is either no longer supported by IBM or the last V#R# 
that ran it soon will be dropped. 
V4R4 is RISC & all OS/4 versions have been RISC for several years.

In theory if the original source code can be re-compiled with observables, 
then the first time it is actually executed, on the RISC box, it will be 
converted from CISC to RISC, or you can do the whole thing in a long restore. 
 If you cannot get at the source or cannot get it with observables, then you 
might not be able to run the CISC code on a RISC box.  You might check the 
archives.  There are many other nuances I not understand.

However, since your software is coming to 400 from another box it will 
probably have to go through some kind of source conversion anyway & with 
access to the source you should have no problems.

>  From:    keg@exchange.gasco.com (Graap, Ken)
>  
>  Is anyone using CISC/400?
>  
>  We are migrating some CICS based applications from an IBM mainframe to the
>  AS/400 and these applications are currently running in a CICS environment.
>  
>  The most current manual I can find is for V3R1... Is CICS even supported in
>  a V4R4+ environment?
>  
>  Kenneth

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax 
interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838

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