Users of Amdahl Corp’s UTS Unix on Amdahl and Fujitsu Ltd mainframes will soon be able to make the move without having to kiss goodbye to their friendly IBM CICS environment thanks to Dallas, Texas-based VISystems Inc. VISystems is the company with the VIS/TP CICS emulator for Unix. Commenting on the possibility of IBM reinventing the wheel by doing its own CICS emulator for AIX Unix, despite having signed for the VISystems one in the meantime (CI No 1,437) the company’s sales and marketing vice-president Don Kisner told our sister paper Unigram/X that IBM saw CICS as so strategic that they might want to manage their own version. VISystems spent two years developing VIS/TP, which according to Kisner has a very high mapping of CICS functionality. It is also available on Unisys, Hewlett-Packard and Data General Unix machines.
