For many years Unibase by DMAC has been used in virtual server configurations. First it was Citrix based, then the WebBase by DMAC allowed Microsoft remote users. Now Unibase is being used with IBM Mainframes in the cloud.
So what? Sounds like a simple change. But it is not. When the IBM Mainframes in the cloud were created they too had to allow for the legacy issues – just like Unibase by DMAC does.
One of the changes a DMAC client found was that the storage configuration had changed. Instead of the {J-R representing negative zero through nine, on the cloud the IBM Mainframes use p-y to represent negative zero through nine.
So now Unibase by DMAC has an environment variable, OV0=p, which says make the negative numbers p-y for cloud mainframes.#