Mainframe access with PHP

[Anon]

This will probably be an old school question.

I know the original author of PHP (who's name escapes me at the moment. sorry) wrote PHP to webify data from a mainframe system on the fly.

I want to do the same thing but I don't know how to start doing it.

I can get the details but I thought I would ask what kind of details would people need to help me get started?

[Anon]

Well, if the data you want to webify is on the other end of: nfs mounts, smb mounts or odbc accessible, (db2, flat files, etc...) you're set, if it's stored in a app like CICS or IDMS, you may need to look at other software, as there isn't a whole lot out there that can talk to those types of apps.

Where I work we use Vega 90 to make idms dialogs appear on a web interface. It's clunky and difficult to program in, but it works, and lets us keep all those bix rules on the mainframe.

We use vega 90 as our interface for PHP, by passing it get urls to get xml and html pages. i.e. fopen("http://mainframe/DIS001S.DIA?record=5345","r");