migration from mainframe to web

[Ed Allen]

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>Linux as a web server or proxy server shouldn't be anything out of the
>usual. What part were you trying to get ideas for? For a web server I
>usually use Apache w/ PHP and I use MySQL for light db stuff (as most
>
>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, kool dude wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> I'm currently working on a enterprise data system
>> housed on s/390 with OS/390.We're currently planning
>> to make it web accessible with plans of moving it from
>> main frame because of the high costs and the need for
>> the web accessebility.Any suggestion about how we
>> could use linux for this.Any help would be greately
>> appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
Check with your IBM rep about running Linux in an LPAR.
Otherwise you must face converting your data from EBCIDIC
to ASCII at the very least.

You could then use your current software as the back end
and talk to the OS/390 through PPP over a channel interface.
While Linux talks to the world.