There are many special considerations. The OS/400 operating system is a decent modern OS and is being enhanced actively. For smaller shops who had System/36 and 38, AS400 is a logical new generation environment.
We were faced with this same challenge recently. There is no port of the OpenSSL libraries for the native AS400 environment, but the i/Series hardware and OS/400 now support the execution of AIX binaries in the Portable Application Software Environment (PASE) subsystem. Both PASE applications and native AS400 apps can use a Unix file system on the machine. IBM has made OpenSSH and OpenSSL (0.9.7d) available, but these are PASE-based, not native OS/400 executables and libraries. They are compiled and linked on AIX and copied into the PASE environment. There are facilities to mix native and PASE applications and libraries. I believe it is "possible" with some experimentation to have an AS400 application load and call the crypto and ssl libraries. There will be a lot of discovery in such an experiment, but it would add value to your product if you could do it. I can give you some more pointers offline. I'm no AS400 expert, merely armed and dangerous. Dave McLellan - Common Management Group Engineering EMC Corporation 228 South St. Hopkinton MA 01748 phone: 508-249-1257 fax 508-497-8030 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:17 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: OpenSSL on AS400 Hi All, We have a client running on AS400 which communicates over tcp/ip that requires to connects to our server via SSL. I really know almost nothing about AS400. Does OpenSSL work on AS400? Are there any special considerations for this platform? Thanks, Mark ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
