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IBM P series and Linux?
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Hemant Shah
2005-01-11 21:41:38 UTC
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Folks,

We are thinking of porting our application to Linux on IBM P Series system.

The list below is the software we need.
Which of the following software are available on Linux on P series.


1) Which Linux SuSE on Red Hat?
2) DB2 UDB
3) COBOL
4) Java 1.4
5) C/C++ Compiler.
6) Perl, etc Open Source software.

How difficult is it to compile/port software that runs on Linux for Intel
and AIX to Linux on P Series.
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Jerry Heyman
2005-01-11 22:16:05 UTC
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Post by Hemant Shah
Folks,
We are thinking of porting our application to Linux on IBM P Series system.
Nice thing about porting to P series, it gets you iSeries for free
(same processor)
Post by Hemant Shah
The list below is the software we need.
Which of the following software are available on Linux on P series.
1) Which Linux SuSE on Red Hat?
Which Intel version are you doing?
SuSE has supported pSeries longer.
Post by Hemant Shah
2) DB2 UDB
3) COBOL
Not sure about this one
Post by Hemant Shah
4) Java 1.4
5) C/C++ Compiler.
Native compiler from IBM or gcc?
Post by Hemant Shah
6) Perl, etc Open Source software.
All there. Standard distribution of RedHat and SuSE
are identical to their Intel distributions. All the
same OpenSource software is there.
Post by Hemant Shah
How difficult is it to compile/port software that runs on Linux for
Intel and AIX to Linux on P Series.
Biggest issue would be that pSeries is big Endian, whereas Intel
is little Endian. If you've already ported from Linux Intel to
AIX you have solved that. API wise, all the system calls/system
utlities on Linux Intel are available on Linux Pseries (also called
linux ppc)

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Hemant Shah
2005-01-12 18:11:34 UTC
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Post by Jerry Heyman
Post by Hemant Shah
Folks,
We are thinking of porting our application to Linux on IBM P Series system.
Nice thing about porting to P series, it gets you iSeries for free
(same processor)
Post by Hemant Shah
The list below is the software we need.
Which of the following software are available on Linux on P series.
1) Which Linux SuSE on Red Hat?
Which Intel version are you doing?
SuSE has supported pSeries longer.
We are currently running on 2.4 kernel (Red Hat 9) and RedHat ES.
Post by Jerry Heyman
Post by Hemant Shah
2) DB2 UDB
Some e-mailed me a url and it seems that DB2 will run on Linux PPC
although I have not seen a install CD for it. We are part of IBM developer
program and we get all versions of DB2 for free for developlment.
Post by Jerry Heyman
Post by Hemant Shah
3) COBOL
Not sure about this one
I believe Micro Focus supports SuSE on PPC.
Post by Jerry Heyman
Post by Hemant Shah
4) Java 1.4
5) C/C++ Compiler.
Native compiler from IBM or gcc?
Either one.
Post by Jerry Heyman
Post by Hemant Shah
6) Perl, etc Open Source software.
All there. Standard distribution of RedHat and SuSE
are identical to their Intel distributions. All the
same OpenSource software is there.
Post by Hemant Shah
How difficult is it to compile/port software that runs on Linux for
Intel and AIX to Linux on P Series.
Biggest issue would be that pSeries is big Endian, whereas Intel
is little Endian. If you've already ported from Linux Intel to
AIX you have solved that. API wise, all the system calls/system
We have licked the Endian problem.
Post by Jerry Heyman
utlities on Linux Intel are available on Linux Pseries (also called
linux ppc)
That's good to know.

Thanks.
Post by Jerry Heyman
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