On Tue, 5 May 2020 13:12:44 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>"deploy" ?
> 
"employ"?

>ISTR that this is your favorite example of using DD's in the shell :-)
>
>cat //DD:MYDD
>
o FSVO "favorite".  See Appendix K of the Command Ref.  It's not
  supported; it may work by happenstance; if it breaks you get to
  keep both parts.

o If it happens to work it's because of "cat" and not "sh".  I'd
  expect it to behave alike under "bash".


>On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:17 AM Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 May 2020 08:56:59 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>>
>> >FWIW, I would love to use bash exclusively on z/OS, but without
>> >_BPX_SHAREAS support:
>> >
>> >-  there are things that you just can't do, like use DDs
>> >
>> Where does a shell employ DDs?
>>
>> >-  the overhead for forking new address spaces is significant for many
>> >tasks.
>> >
>> That seems to be an argument for retaining _BPX_SHAREAS support.
>> And for a shell's using spawn() where possible rather than fork().

-- gil

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