In my experience, there are Luddites in every camp. Some mainframers are bleeding edge; others are stuck in the past. Likewise for PC users.
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Colin Paice [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS David, Are there any white papers or blog posts giving examples of IBM's use of git on z/OS, Im sure there would be a lot of interest in this. Are there any share or guide presentations? Far from being luddites, z/OS people tend to adopt change, as long as the new stuff can meet the same standards as before. How do people using Git build the products. Before I left IBM our build system on z/OS had XML files configuration files (which I found very complex). 40 years ago I was in build and had a simple file with one line per source file. I found file tagging a challenge. The only way I could get a python file to compile was to copy an existing .py file, and edit it and insert my content; or ftp in* binary *a file from linux and use chtag -ct SO8859-1 name.py. Im sure there must be an easy way, but I could not find it. Colin On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 15:29, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/1/22 8:55 pm, René Jansen wrote: > > It is undeniable that git - which I love and use every day, is much more > complicated on z/OS because of EBCDIC, access methods, records and block > sizes. > > > It's not complicated Rene. There are UNIX commands that make it snack! > Company policy says we need to use Git. Some projects still use MVS data > sets so we sync to the file system. You would be surprised what products > you use every day that are hosted and built from the z/OS UNIX file > system and managed by Git. File tagging makes EBCDIC a non issue and > block sizes and records are nothing more than I/O methods of the > utilities that do the sync. The most compelling Git advocates where I > work are some of our best mainframe engineers who have witnessed it's > capabilities such as merging. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
