[Info-vax] Moving IBM Mainframe and AS/400 applications to VMS ?, was: Re: Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/9/2020 9:38 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> To those of you more familiar with this, is there any viable path for
> moving these applications from the IBM world to the VMS world ?

All 3 true IBM platforms:
* z (mainframe)
* i (a few decades ago known as AS/400)
* AIX on Power
are shrinking.

But they could still be interesting, because even though
shrinking they are still many times bigger than VMS *and*
unlike much of the Linux crowd then their customers are
used to pay big money. And for VMS to have a strong future
then VSI need to make money.

AIX/Power must be rather common: C, C++, Java,
some Perl, maybe some Python. That is sort of
covered.

z and i are more tricky. I believe both Cobol
and PL/I are still big there. VMS got Cobol (relative
old Cobol standard, but it is not my impression that the
Cobol people care about the newer standards). PL/I
would be a miss. There are probably other languages
used as well, but C, C++ and Java are covered.

Arne