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From: mauro@simm.sublink.org (Mauro Mozzarelli)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: AS/400
Message-ID: <2177@simm.sublink.org>
Date: 26 Mar 91 19:05:09 GMT
References: <9103232015.AA01549@lilac.berkeley.edu>
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in article <9103232015.AA01549@lilac.berkeley.edu>, DAHLBERL@DUVM.BITNET (Lars) says:
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>      I have no experience with AS/400 machines but I do know IBM 3090's.

You are lucky

> How do these machines differ in writing and running a COBOL program?

OS/400 has an SPF like editor and manages libraries where you can put
sources files that are like the partitioned files under VMS.
OS/400 has more utilities and you can reach your goal quicker than under
a VMS (speaking about development of on-line procedures under CICS for
example): there are already utilities to define screens and the OS/400
database is very easy to use.

But about OS/400 and his filesystem there are a lot of stuff that IBM 
might have standardized, but didn't it.

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