On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a
>"POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a
>group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't
>have any real equivalent to. I will give them a pass on porting the GNU
>Compiler Collection (GCC) because that would negatively impact their own
>compiler products. They especially need to replace their inferior versions
>of: grep; sed; find; awk.
>
("find -print0" has a co-requisite of "xargs -0".)
EBCDIC makes it more costly. Consider:
https://bugs.python.org/issue1298
What if the GNU utilities were compiled with c99 ASCII mode and mutatis
mutandis autoconversion could handle classic data sets? (What need would
remain for EBCDIC UNIX files?) But Rexx? BPXWDYN?
Deficiencies in ASCII runtime support: Curses. X11. Others?
tzdata?
-- gil
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