Progress Fuse v3.4.0.5 on Z/OS?

[gmotts_gary.motts]

Does anyone know if Progress Fuse v3.4.0.5 is able to run on IBM's Z/OS platform as a USS (Unix System Services)?  We've tested it of course on an AIX platform which works well.

-Thanks

Gary

[jgoodyea]

Hi Gary,

I have not had the opportunity to try ESB 3.4.0.5 out on a Z-series, so I do not know if it will work directly out of the box with out a little bit of configuration.

The biggest issue will be that character encoding is not ascii/utf8 based. It will probably work easiest if you set the default char encoding to UTF-8 (there's a system prop for that) and then edit all the config files, scripts, etc on a unix/windows machine and then just transfer in binary mode to the z/OS.

The next issues will be that our scripts were developed mostly with bash in mind instead of z/os shell or tsch. They may require some minor tweaks, unless you already have bash on your system.

Finally I know that some of the shell interface key combos are different from what we normally would use.. ex. Ctrl-D on Unix would be Ctrl + function key or some other escape sequence.

Baring the above in mind we do not have z/OS on our supported platforms list, so there could be more issues that I'm not aware of at the moment.

I do believe that IBM has a port of bash available:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/library/IBM+Redbooks/index.html#bash

Differences from a UNIX or AIX environment to z/OS:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/bpxza470/2.1?DT=20060602105904

Cheers,

Jamie