On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:48 AM Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you mean -
>
> - using z/OS Unix syscalls?
>

Yes. Such as a COBOL program doing a CALL to BPX1SLP to "sleep" for a
while. No, I don't know why they would use that example, I just chose it.



> - using the z/OS Unix file system?
>

Yes to all. Saving & reading data in UNIX files vs legacy datasets.
Excluding "temporary" data going in fro "somewhere and then copied to a
legacy DSN for actual use. As an example uses PATH= in Production JCL. for
application generated and processed data.



> - using the z/OS Unix shell?
>

Yes, such as using awk to read a report data set (cp -T "//'some.dsn'"
/dev/fd1 | awk ... | cp -T /dev/fd0 "//'another.dsn'""



>
> FWIW - I contend that there is no such thing as "running under Unix" on
> z/OS.  All please discuss :-)
>
>
-- 
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Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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