A very few linux distributions have been certified as POSIX compliant. Why have the other Linux distributions not been certified? Money. You have to pay for each release and each platform.
So will a user POSIX script / program work on Linux? 99.999% probability. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/293396/is-there-a-linux-distro-thats-unix-certified On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:11 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since Linux has never been certified as Unix, it seems reasonable that he > means Unix System Services. I could find nothing in the current manuals to > suggest that dubbing is mandatory. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > Charles Mills [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 9:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job? > > I assume you mean USS and not Linux on Z. > > I am not speaking out of school to say that Wells Fargo is a HUGE user of > Linux on Z. Marcy Cortes has a SHARE talk "Penguins on the Stagecoach." > > Any C or C++ program -- assuming the IBM C/C++ compilers -- is using USS (I > would say USS services but that would be redundant). So I guess all of the > customers for my CorreLog -- now BMC -- security product are "using UNIX." > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 5:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Any shop use UNIX in a production job? > > Other than the implicit use of UNIX by things such as FTP, I mean. In > particular I am speaking of keeping production data in a UNIX file, rather > than a legacy dataset; use of scripting via /bin/sh, awk, or other, use of > any of the BPX* UNIX callable services. > > Just curious. I use awk at times for doing stuff in my personal activities. > But my manager dislikes UNIX so I can't use it in any of my "production" > jobs because "nobody knows UNIX" and "everybody knows REXX". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
