Hi everyone,

We are very interested in such discussions on using Squeak with an AS/400. We are undertaking very preliminary discussions with a client wanting to migrate a dispatch (field force) system which uses a mobile on the client side to send SMS messages to update the back-end AS/400.

More details will follow, but initially I am wanting to ascertain a level of interest for a paid assignment to develop ~20 screens on a PDA client or equivalent that will directly communicate to an AS/400 back end. At this stage it may or may not require Squeak to be running on the AS/400 either native or under a Linux partition, so long as it can talk to the Database and associated systems.

If anyone is interested please contact me via the email enclosed.

Kind regards John Magnifico

Director Blue Plane Pty Ltd

On 26/06/07, Davide Grandi davide.grandi@mclink.it wrote:

Germán Arduino ha scritto:

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Hi Guys:

I'm exactly now working to an american company in a mainframe project and setting up an Hercules emulation environment (with the authorized IBM SOs that may run under Hercules) and, as a Squeaker, I'm wondering if Squeak may run in a Linux running under a mainframe operating system running under Hercules.

Of course, could be nice see Squeak running natively in such "big iron's" !!

May be I could have time and hopefully my employer get interested in Squeak to try somethings.

At last, want to comment: Hercules emulator is really fantastic, I've a mainframe running in my Linux box!

Cheers.

-- Germán S. Arduino http://www.arsol.biz http://www.arsol.net

2007/6/24, Davide Grandi <Davide.Grandi@mclink.it mailto:Davide.Grandi@mclink.it>:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:46:15 -0700, Edgar J. De Cleene
> <edgardec2001@yahoo.com.ar <mailto:edgardec2001@yahoo.com.ar>>
wrote:
>
> > El 6/23/07 3:24 PM, "Blake" < blake@kingdomrpg.com
<mailto:blake@kingdomrpg.com>> escribió:
> >
> >> Not personally, but both of my parents. I might be able to
> lure my dad
> >> into a project, tho'.
> >
> > If have any details, as what VM, I appreciate
>
> Oh, I see. That's a long shot but I'll ask.

Squeak on the AS/400 ? Very intriguing !
AFAIK there were only a Visualage Smalltalk edition (4.5) running
on the PASE environment (an AIX-like hole drilled in OS/400 down
to the MI, if my memory holds). Back in 2000-2001.

You could run Squeak on a Linux "partition" of the OS/400,
headless (unless you start also the X server) : you need a
standard linux 64 distribution running on a Power kernel (Suse,
Red hat, et al.). I run a Jxxx app. server 5 years ago and ran it
exactly as I did on a pc-based environment.

Running it on the OS/400 side could lead to some interesting
integration with the OS/400 db (tables, schemas and other db
"objects" are first class OS object).

I wander if someone ran Squak on the other IBM "big Iron", the
/390 aka zSeries (or in his software emulator Hercules).

Let us know about the '400.

Best regards,

    Davide
--
Ing. Davide Grandi
davide.grandi@mclink.it <mailto:davide.grandi@mclink.it>
www.davidegrandi.net <http://www.davidegrandi.net>

Last year I've worked on the port of a COBOL account package from VSE-VSAM-3270 to zLinux-db2-XHTML and ... "Guess who ?" the "same" Linux port that I ran years ago on AS/400 also ran on zLinux (apart from being compiled for anothe processor and being at two major relase after). The 2 smart guys of that Genoa's bank I worked with, ran succesfully either VSE ether zLinux on hercules (being zLinux emulated under hercules a litlte bit sluggish ), so if you find how to compile Squeak on a linux 64 ...

Best regards,

Davide

Ing. Davide Grandi davide.grandi@mclink.it www.davidegrandi.net