RE: Would it be possible to PC based tools or packages inside the IFS ???

Not gonna happen.

IBM did a port of the Mono environment to PASE as an experiment and then it got deep-sixed which means it will never see the light of day :-)

I asked for access to the source so we could complete the port and my request disappeared into the Ether. Poof !!

Check out Mainsoft:
http://www.mainsoft.com

You Visual Studio Web Services and Sites can be compiled to Java and run under Tomcat.

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On 2/19/2012 9:00 PM, thomas burrows wrote:

I understand a bit about why this idea does not just work immediately.

All PC "not Apple Mac products" run on an INTEL or INTEL like cloned
processor standard developed by IBM back in 1981.

The iSeries/AS400 "or whatever IBM is calling the platform today" runs
on the POWER 7 processor.

But has anyone given any thought to what it would take to be able to
run any Windows type package, etc from i-Navigator on the iSeries???

What I am thinking about is how would I get Visual Studios 2010 to run
on the iSeries???

Okay this is a 100,000 foot question. Not even getting into the issues
of trying to do the SQL connection string back to the original iSeries.

Probably will need some type of emulator to handle this.

Any thoughts from the group about something like this?