migration from mainframe to web

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Fri Jun 7 15:27:47 CDT 2002


Plus there are some programs that can read EBCDIC and convert between
the two.
Like Microfocus COBOL (shivers, crosses self).
Anyone know of any Linux utility that does that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel at kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:46 AM
> To: eallen at kc.rr.com
> Cc: Kansas City Linux users
> Subject: Re: migration from mainframe to web
> 
> 
> FTP on the mainframe side has an option to convert EBCDIC to 
> ASCII.  You 
> may still need to process the data a bit to get it to work 
> with your DB, 
> but it is not that hard to do.
> 
> 
> 
> Ed Allen wrote:
> 
> > Forwarded message:
> > 
> >>Linux as a web server or proxy server shouldn't be anything 
> out of the
> >>usual. What part were you trying to get ideas for? For a 
> web server I
> >>usually use Apache w/ PHP and I use MySQL for light db 
> stuff (as most
> >>
> >>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, kool dude wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all
> >>>I'm currently working on a enterprise data system
> >>>housed on s/390 with OS/390.We're currently planning
> >>>to make it web accessible with plans of moving it from
> >>>main frame because of the high costs and the need for
> >>>the web accessebility.Any suggestion about how we
> >>>could use linux for this.Any help would be greately
> >>>appreciated.
> >>>Thanks
> >>>Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> > Check with your IBM rep about running Linux in an LPAR.
> > Otherwise you must face converting your data from EBCIDIC
> > to ASCII at the very least.
> > 
> > You could then use your current software as the back end
> > and talk to the OS/390 through PPP over a channel interface.
> > While Linux talks to the world.
> > 
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