Thanks for that link, interesting stuff. For ZOA, is there any intent to provide support for other scripting languages, in particular for (g)awk and perl? Currently the z/OS Unix Services version of awk uses fopen() for input and output files so it does accidentally support regular z/OS datasets, but it would be nice of that were made permanent and easier to use instead of "oops, yes you can do that but we don't promise to keep it that way in the future".
Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Mike Fulton Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOA Open Automation Utilities IBM Z Open Automation Utilities is a free FMID today. We are changing this to make it a free PID: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS220-087/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en The goal of ZOAU is to provide access to MVS resources from the Unix System Services environment directly through core 'atomic' services like dls (dataset list) which works in an analagous way to ls (zFS file list) and so forth for other MVS resources. The intent is to also provide these services from the language of your choice - so base 'sh' is supported but so is Python and Java, and a general DLL interface is provided so that other language support could be provided. I wrote a blog about this for those that are interested: https://makingdeveloperslivesbetter.wordpress.com/ thanks, mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
