Gil mentioned one case where BPXWDYN gets you dubbed: if you use MSG(2) then the code probably uses the BPX1OPN/WRT syscalls to print your SVC99 messages.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:54 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > It's BPX because it was written for the benefit of Unix users, although in > practice it's used a lot outside of Unix. There is no dub. > > OTOH, if you allocate a path then you probably will want to open it, and > that will cause dubbing. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Kirk Wolf [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 1:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job? > > I could be wrong, but I don't believe that BPXWDYN actually uses Unix > syscalls or would cause the AS to be dubbed. I think that the BPX prefix > is a little misleading. Ask on mvs-oe and you might get a definite answer > from the developer. > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1h_Ri43f0kXYLJq80d4Kd4Sxf8fcUWlpkdjQnCmP8ppTgV-f4vYvQ8manylF4QmBI1gR6n6qDE1kLs6XZYeYHz0FvbjsZ4RFz7GcYVoSJc5Wd-3THmfRJ-9bTGN_YTLMAzqmY4JLXkKcMnbO21ghNIJhhb3TkbmaEFDi3uu1R6Ltx18fe5p0u9q4T2B62iBxTxErnGFYiOqwH4VWAkJQyu83J46c4b_F5l5e7wbF-7H41mfCtzqhc8mweSsDyP9yJjys4is-T_iBSw2dJfq2HEEe9XIzct0LItiqN994QClc-bEo8agTLRvDKUR34Kt4t8cpFZ0F54-fYK2gj66aHIjnBVvh440s2T2Kcae27HgH_xcFDZ1UGukmc13KeN7aqlipew6PV9jWJy6ol8nVDoAokX5T6QKTuUAvdrWJtO2WNxfGUoQ_8ujIr95aWhmnA/http%3A%2F%2Fdovetail.com > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:31 AM Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What about BPXWDYN from COBOL? > > > > I know this is being done. > > > > And I know of another using BPXWDY2 that will be production in the near > > future (alias entry to BPXWDYN). > > > > Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. > > Expct mistaks > > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2020, at 11:22 AM, John McKown < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > 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 :-) > > >> > > >> > > > -- > > > People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. > > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
