AW: [omniORB] Omni ORB on OS/390

[Pfeiffer Daniel]

On 30 Sep 2002 17:33:46 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> Has anybody tried or succeeded in compiling and using OmniORB unders IBMs
> OS/390 operating system?

omniORB 3.0.5 contains our port to Fujitsu Siemens BS2000 which is also an
EBCDIC mainframe platform.  There is a considerable number of EBCDIC-related
modifications.  We then had MIPS R10000 hardware, but have just switched
back to classical S/390 hardware, which required a few Siemens specific
compiler-option tweaks.

The code base of omniORB 4.0 is too different for our patch to be
applicable.  We will port oO 4 against a new EBCDIC-transparent Posix system
library, which should involve far fewer modifications.  Only minor things
like command line options, which don't go through a system library call,
will remain EBCDIC.

I hope some of this may be of help to you.

Daniel