The Master Terminal

Shhh …now please keep this to yourself as I don’t really want to admit it ….

I am about to out myself here, but I like to use Mac OS X.

There I said it. But please don’t hold it against me!

I also like to use CICS Explorer, so that means I have a dilemma… Because, officially, the supported CICS Explorer platforms are:

• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (32-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux V5 (Intel®) (32-bit)

Mac OS X is missing from that list!

If you are prepared to run with an unsupported environment for CICS Explorer, it is possible to get CICS Explorer running on Mac OS X. That is the aim of this post.

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