June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
This section discusses some key considerations for porting applications to Linux on the mainframe. Before choosing an application as a candidate for porting, you need to be aware of the application's dependencies on other software, decide which mainframe architecture to target (31-bit or 64-bit), and determine whether you want to provide support for different distribution levels and distributions.
Whether porting an application is feasible also depends on the context in which the application is to run. The application might depend on supporting software. A port would then imply also porting that software. If the required supporting software is a proprietary application or middleware ...