That's wrong, I think! For sure FRAME entries can be developped / maintained on mainframe. It's not very comfortable, but... Necessary is a graphics terminal or a graphics emulation and the definition of a graphic terminal in VTAM. AND, for sure: you must have SAS/AF on mainframe! Maybe that is not the case at your installation. Most sites which develop AF applications do that on a cheap workstation. That's less expensive and more comfortable. For the compiled application you don't need to have AF to run it, but you need it for the compile. So what you mentionen might be the right way. If you have SAS/AF on mainframe, you simply could/should compile the applications under V8/9. If you only have it on PC, compile them there, before you CPORT them again. With that evrything should work. Gerhard

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 04:02:40 -0700, jaheuk <hejacobs@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Hi guys, >if I correctly understand: FRAME entries can not be maintained/ >developed on mainframe. > >So is my roadmap correctly ?? > >1. via cport/cimport transfer existing frame entries from v6 mainframe >to v8 pc > >2. on v8 pc do BUILD to recompile or after modifications > >3. via cport/cimport from pc v8 to mainframe v8 > >4. FRAME entries on mainframe should work > >5. is changes required always do on pc v8 (or v9 perhaps) and transfer >via cport/cimport to mainframe > > >THX!! > >Hermie