IBM Corp has announced Distributed System Object Model for MVS 5.2.2 – the Open Edition MVS/ESA SP release that is now 90% compliant with the XPG4.2 standard needed to win Unix branding. The move is in line with IBM’s strategy to provide object-oriented programming in several languages on all its system. So far OS/2 and MVS have been announced, although a version for AS/400 will be announced early next year, the company said. Programming tools for MVS that include a post-interactive debugger, System Object Model compilers, language compilers and a set of SOMobjects for MVS class libraries have also been announced.
