The MVS to Unix migration HOWTO

Erik Rossen <rossen@rossen.ch>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Unix philosophy
• 1.2 MVS philosophy

2. Resources

3. An overview of the migration project

4. The problems of migration

• 4.1 Differing jargon
• 4.2 EBCDIC and ASCII
• 4.3 Custom file formats

5. JCL to Perl (or other Unix scripting languages)

6. Printing

• 6.1 Printing from SAS
• 6.2 Printing from other applications
• 6.3 Solaris printing
• 6.4 Unix printing

7. File transfer

• 7.1 Automatic FTP login - a time-saver
• 7.2 Aliases - yet another Unix time-saver
• 7.3 Binary, ASCII, and EBCDIC transfers
• 7.4 Directory navigation with cd

8. PKZIP and unzip(1)

9. How to migrate text files

• 9.1 Get rid of formatting
• 9.2 Conversion with trimspace

10. How to migrate JCL scripts

• 10.1 First convert the scripts to plain text
• 10.2 Conversion of the JCL script with jcl2perl translator
• 10.3 Changing job parameters

11. How to migrate SAS programs

• 11.1 No RECFM
• 11.2 Fix the "NOT" test
• 11.3 Change TSO calls

12. How to migrate SAS datasets

• 12.1 Build character translation tables with PROC TRANTAB
• 12.2 Convert to transport format with PROC CPORT
• 12.3 Convert to local (Unix) format with PROC MCIMPORT

13. How to migrate CLISTs

14. List of scripts written for STAT

15. The new STAT file organisation

• 15.1 Space
• 15.2 Backups
• 15.3 STAT Directories
• 15.4 Security and file-locking

16. General Recommendations

• 16.1 use free software
• 16.2 set up /etc/skel with appropriate paths and aliases
• 16.3 scripting courses or forced usage necessary to take advantage of Unix
• 16.4 Unix courses for support personnel too