Re: cae on linux

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Steve,

You wrote:
>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 do document these interfaces but they are subject to change and you have
to pay for access.  They are part of the LIPI interfaces.  Access is not
expensive.

However, I don't think you could use them to create open source software
because you are not allowed to expose the interface directly.  My reading of
the LIPI agreement is that you are only allowed to use the interfaces for
your own programs and not allowed to ship anything that would directly
expose those interfaces.

You could, I think, create a closed set of enablers that provided access to
the servers and then you could use those enablers in open source software as
long as the enablers abstracted the underlying LIPI interface in a manner
that did not expose the raw interface.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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