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[Arekal]

Hi All,

I heard of hercules and Microfocus Simulator.

I'm interested in installing these in my personal computer(OS - WINDOWS). Can you please help me in better understanding the below points:

1) What I understand is, these two simulators will simulate only mainframe OS and not provide ISPF, COBOL compiler etc, VSAM,CICS,DB2 etc..in personal computers. Right ?

2) If ISPF,COBOL compiler etc, VSAM,CICS,DB2 etc.. is not available in these simulators, Can you please suggest me how to get all these softwares ?

3) I have also heard of some lease line which we can get for real mainframe connection. Can you suggest me any vendor provinding this service in India.

Thanks In advance.
Arekal.

[zatlas]

MicroFocus actually provides everything you need, but it is a set of comercial products that you have to pay for.

Hercules provides hardware simulation. The 'free' MVS version that is available is rather old. Many componenets are available but I doubt about DB2 and CICS.

For COBOL and Assembler simulators (I believe CICS is available) look for z390 and zcobol
ZA

[papadi]

Suggest you look on the http://www.hercules-390.org/ site.

Spend some time looking thru what they have available. Possibly as a jump-start try http://www.hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html

Depending on how heavily you want to invest in this, consider joining the hercules-390 discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390
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