No answer to your questions, just another question. How many z/OS or z/VM sites are using GCC?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 8:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS. This is being prompted by the recent thread about getting the name of the running job in C. These are just some random questions. First, is C becoming more popular on z/OS? What for? I.e. batch programs, UNIX commands, CICS transactions, Db2 applications, ... ? Given that C, in other *IX systems, is a "system implementation" language, I find it interesting that IBM has not tried to make z/OS C have some of the same emphasis. Or maybe that is what Metal C is for. What I'm getting at is that there are no "system level" function interfaces, such as for ENQ/DEQ or "Name/Token" pairs. Would such interfaces be of any general use? -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
