Guys,
Are you saying Unix on z/os is lacking tools ?

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On Mar 1, 2012, at 4:01 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 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.
> 
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>> -----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?
>> 
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