Re: cae on linux

[Dr Syd Nicholson <sydnic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Richter wrote:

>Thank you Syd.
>
>Very odd that IBM says they support Linux, yet dont support the CAE APIs on
>Linux.
>
>If they did, I could port my windows C++ code to Linux much more easily.
>
>What would be great is if IBM documented the CAE server jobs that run on the
>iSeries. The ones that the dtaq, rpc and database CAE APIs call into. Then
>Linux open source code could be written to access the iSeries resources.
>
IBM only seem to support Linux running on the iSeries, not Linux as a
client. I am optimistic this will change soon.

Perhaps there is some documentation somewhere. Could be worth a search
of the internet. You would need to code at a much lower level because I
know of no APIs to handle the low level interfaces to the servers you
mention.

Syd Nicholson