BS2000

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BS2000 or BS2000/OSD (indicating availability of POSIX-compliant routines) is an operating system from Fujitsu Siemens Computers (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme) for mainframes. It is an EBCDIC-based operating system.

Ports of Apache and PHP have been made to it.

One database available for it is SESAM, for which a PHP 3 extension exists (http://www.php.net/sesam). Other available databases are Adabas from Software AG and IDMS from Computer Associates and Oracle from Oracle Corporation.

BS2000 may run under the VM2000 hypervisor.

BS2000 runs on a S- or SX-series computer, which is based on the IBM System/390 architecture.

http://bs2000.fujitsu-siemens.com/

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This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.