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Posted: **Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:24 pm**

Hi
Why should a mainframe job be compiled and run on a mainframe while server and parallel jobs can be compiled and run on a DS server ?

Posted: **Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:29 pm**

Because COBOL compilers on UNIX are very rare beasts indeed!

COBOL compilers on Windows are even rarer.

Posted: **Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:46 pm**

what does that have to do with obtaining the data from somethn like a DB2 database on a mainframe ?

Posted: **Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:50 pm**

what does that have to do with obtaining the data from somethn like a DB2 database on a mainframe ?

Posted: **Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:25 am**

What does that have to do with the question you asked?

Posted: **Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:27 am**

ray.wurlod wrote:Because COBOL compilers on UNIX are very rare beasts indeed!

COBOL compilers on Windows are even rarer.

Not really all that rare. Microfocus has been doing COBOL on tons of platforms for what... decades now?

Posted: **Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:48 pm**

Adam_Clone wrote:what does that have to do with obtaining the data from somethn like a DB2 database on a mainframe ?

Nothing at all, but it answers the original question.

A mainframe job is a job to be executed in a mainframe environment.
A parallel job is a job to be executed in a parallel (SMP or MPP) environment.
A server job is a job to be executed on a single DataStage server.

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:53 am**

and USS jobs need to be compiled on a USS instance

Mainframe Job...