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List:       linux-390
Subject:    Re: Micro Focus
From:       "McKown, John" <John.McKown () healthmarkets ! com>
Date:       2011-02-16 13:17:32
Message-ID: A6B9336CDB62BB46B9F8708E686A7EA005D9901BEB () NRHMMS8P02 ! uicnrh ! dom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Thomas David Rivers
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:18 PM
> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Micro Focus
> 
> > 
> > We didn't do this because of some assembler routines used 
> that would not
> > translate well to Linux, and some calls to an archaic product with no
> > Linux equivalent.
> > 
> 
> You can use the Dignus assembler to port existing z/OS
> ASM source to z/Linux with very few changes.
> 
> The Dignus assembler generates ELF objects that can be linked
> into a shared library that should be loadable/callable by Microfocus.
> 
> This would mean you are executing the ASM programs 'natively' on the
> z/Arch hardware.
> 
> 	- Dave R. -
> 
> --
> rivers@dignus.com                        Work: (919) 676-0847
> Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com

Perhaps it was the functionality which would not translate well to zLinux. Depends on \
what the HLASM does. If it were my shop and I had the budget, I'd push to convert all \
HLASM to C with perhaps embedded assembler, if necessary.

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