Further to its plan to have the complete Sybase System 10 client-server development environment up on IBM Corp’s Spec 1170-compliant MVS OpenEdition by the end of the year (CI No 2,620), Sybase Inc is, in the meantime, shipping its Open Client application programming interface, Embedded SQL/C and SQL/Cobol pre-compilers, for closed MVS, as part of its Enterprise Connect interoperability software. The application programming interface enables MVS applications to act as clients in client-server set-ups. There is already an Open Client programming interface for CICS and Open Server interfaces for CICS and IMS. Open Client and Open Server for MVS/Open Edition are due in the first half of next year.
