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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:13 AM

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if there is a vsam for AIX? If so, is it available
from IBM (and what is the product called)? If not from IBM, then who?

Thanks,
Dave

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:13 AM

Dave <aaa@bbb.com> wrote in message news:<avlqp05hjhnka92cru8q49c4q1kdp6qmk0@4ax.com>. ..
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is a vsam for AIX? If so, is it available
> from IBM (and what is the product called)? If not from IBM, then who?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

The following may be totally off base but you may want to check it
out. At a previous employer of mine, they wanted to get off their
mainframe either by replacing apps with vendor apps. However, they
were several they could not, they used a product called "UniKix"(check
the sp) to run the remainder of their MF apps on AIX. My apologies
for the long drawn out reply.

HTH,
Pete's

#3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:14 AM

While stranded on information super highway Dave wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me if there is a vsam for AIX? If so, is it available
> from IBM (and what is the product called)? If not from IBM, then who?

What are you trying to accomplish?

Micro Focus COBOL supoprts VSAM enulation using C-ISAM on AIX.
I think thay also have middle ware program that can read VSAM files from
mainframe.

>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:14 AM

Pete's wrote:

>
> The following may be totally off base but you may want to check it
> out. At a previous employer of mine, they wanted to get off their
> mainframe either by replacing apps with vendor apps. However, they
> were several they could not, they used a product called "UniKix"(check
> the sp) to run the remainder of their MF apps on AIX. My apologies
> for the long drawn out reply.
>
> HTH,
> Pete's

Hi, this software (UNIKIX), was then named "TRANS", and is
called now MTP , and is owned by Sun Microsystems.
-) AFAIK, BNP PARIBAS (frenck Bank) is the only AIX client.
-) MTP is a Transaction Processor, not only a VSAM-TYPE software.

Regards,
Stephane

#5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:14 AM

> What are you trying to accomplish?

We are porting two mainframe applications to AIX. The mainframe is
being decommissioned, so reading files from the mainframe is out of
the question.

One application is totally batch and it uses vsam files. The other is
CICS and batch using IMS databases. The CICS application is being
converted to DB2, and we hoped that we would not have to convert the
vsam files from the first application, to db2 also.

We are using TX Series 5.1 for the CICS application, and it appears
that Encina (which comes with TX Series), emulates VSAM, but only for
CICS programs. Converting the batch programs to batch CICS programs is
not an option.

We are also using IBM Cobol for AIX.

Thanks for your reply,
Dave

#6 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:15 AM

In article <j8a2q0d830ne7fns79feuohmaoelbda8rt@4ax.com>, Dave <aaa@bbb.com> writes:
>
> > What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> We are porting two mainframe applications to AIX. The mainframe is
> being decommissioned, so reading files from the mainframe is out of
> the question.
>

We went through a similar thing about a decade ago (MVS=>AIX).
An acceptable solution was to export the VSAM files in some ftp-able format
on the MVS side (can't remember the command, it's too long ago, but it was
a standard one).
On arrival on the AIX side a homegrown utility converted the stuff into
some UNIX-friendly database (in our case gdbm freeware, whose API
came close to the original VSAM keyed record retrieval).

maybe this helps

#7 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 05:15 AM

>On arrival on the AIX side a homegrown utility converted the stuff into
>some UNIX-friendly database (in our case gdbm freeware, whose API
>came close to the original VSAM keyed record retrieval).
>
>maybe this helps

I will look into it. Thanks very much!

Dave

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