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Subject: X11 clients/libs for IBM mainframes/minis wanted
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Date: 21 Sep 88 17:10:21 GMT
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On August 26, IBM announced as a part of release 1.2 of the TCP/IP for VM
product the support of the X Window System client C language interface.
The support announced at that time was for VM/CMS. The official
product number is 5798-FAL and announced availability is Sept. 30, 1988.
The code is based on X11 Release 2 and in addition to Xlib, the toolkit,
Athena widget set, and H-P widget set are included as sample code.
Porting to the CMS world is relatively painless (header file differences
for the most part). For instance, to make xhanoi run in CMS is about
2 or 3 lines of code change (1 for a font name, 2 for header files).
xcalc was about the same amount of work, as I remember. xperfmon
was slightly more work(different techniques for statistics gathering).

And as of yesterday with the announcement of TCP/IP for MVS, the X Window
System client interface will be available under MVS as well. The product
number there is 5685-061, and it will provide a similar level of
function. I believe it's availability date is June 1989.

Also along with the X support is NFS Server support for both VM and MVS.

I don't know of any support for AS/400 systems at this time.

    Andy Pierce - IBM Cambridge Scientific Center