z/TPF Application Modernization using Standard and Open Middleware

Porting open system applications to a z/TPF system

This chapter introduces the open system Internet protocols that the z/TPF system supports, which are the Internet servers and application programming interfaces (APIs) that the z/TPF system provides to ease the porting of open system applications to the z/TPF system. This chapter demonstrates the flexibility of the z/TPF system by discussing some of the open system middleware functions (OpenLDAP, MySQL) that are available on the z/TPF platform. It also discusses ASCII and EBCDIC character conversion ...