Curiousity, what do you mean by "proper integration of Unix Services in MVS"? Are there services in other versions of UNIX that you'd like to see in z/OS UNIX? Or is it that z/OS UNIX is (how?) not properly integrated into z/OS?
What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of Perl, python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I realise that IBM cannot afford to supply these things for free. I, personally, cannot attempt to "port" this because: (1) we don't have a C license; (2) we are CPU critical and constantly monitoring to reduce our MSUs to reduce our software costs; (3) I likely don't have the talent. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time? > > In <[email protected]>, on 02/29/2012 > at 07:05 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> said: > > >Yep, it's called TZDATA. Pity IBM hasn't gotten sufficiently > >organized to embrace it for z/OS Damn, I guess that places me > >alongside gil/John. Thus a (nominal) triumvirate - perchance to > >progress to a fully populated cabal someday ? > > I'm a member od a different cabal; I want *both* proper integration of > Unix Services in MVS *and* all of the tools that I would expect on > other *ix platforms, e.g., a current[1][2] Perl, OOREXX. > > [1] I'm looking to upgrade my OS/2 system from Perl 5.10.0 to 5.14 > while MVS is stuck on 5.8.7. > > [2] Yes, it would take a lot of work to resolve the EBCDIC-Unicode > issues. Perhaps they could offer Perl 6 instead? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
