Re: CICS for the AS/400

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

CICS is real mainframe  and live  on the 4000  right thru V4R5 of today.



Glenn
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At 03:27 PM 12/26/2000 -0500, MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> 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 
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> sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838
>
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