Canadian Posix and X Open Portability Guide specialist Mortice Kern Systems Inc has won its third account with IBM Corp. This time Big Blue has licensed Mortice Kern’s InterOpen/XPG4 Posix shell (commands) and utilities for version 2 of the VM/ESA 3090 mainframe operating system released last week. The standards have already been applied to MVS; an OS/400 implementation is under way. Meanwhile, Waterloo, Ontario-based Mortice Kern has begun a standards watch information service to be delivered as and when needed. The first bulletin notes that US government standards for Posix.2 have completed their review and comment period with no problems, have passed from the National Institute of Standards to the US Secretary of Commerce and are expected to be passed in November. The National Institute is evaluating Federal Standards Posix.2 test suite providers. The XCUTS test suites for X/Open Co Ltd’s XPG4 specifications under development at Palo Alto, California firm Mindcraft Inc have been renamed VSC. Mortice Kern has also poached former SunSoft Inc Europe manager Doug Miller from Information Foundation as InterOpen Account Manager, West Coast Division.
