I remember Don Higgins put a ton of work into his Emulator. As I remember he wrote it in JAVA and Did a pretty good job of it
Steve -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: LzLabs http://www.z390.org/ is pretty close. http://z390-asm.blogspot.com/2012/11/catching-up.html Don Higgins 2nd IBM mainframe emulator product, lzLabs is his 3rd. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 3:34 AM Peter Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > > As their own release says, it's only 2.5k MIPS of batch COBOL Swisscom was > going to EOL anyway. > > Emulating the entire ecosystem and all the third-party tools seems like > insane. They call it re-hosting. IMHO you can re-host something written to > open standards. Otherwise you have to deal with legal issues and since it's > all propritary and patented they must have reverse engineered entire zOS. Can > you do it without infringing on patents ? And even if you can, how many man > years would you need ? Harsh reality these days is funding is becoming scarce. > > Peter Baumann > > > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. April 2020 um 17:11 Uhr > Von: "Ed Jaffe" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: LzLabs > On 4/28/2020 7:49 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > > They migrated some swiss based telecommunications company. > > Swisscom, the largest telco in the country: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/16/lzlabs_kills_swisscoms_mainframes/ > > Re: the lay-off, now is great time to trim workforce "fat" and/or "dead > wood" with many governments providing unheard of subsidies for the > unemployed... > > > -- > Phoenix Software International > Edward E. Jaffe > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/[https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the > information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise > received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, > review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information > contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies > of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email > message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this > email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be > free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into > which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient > to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the > sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
