>Because I believe that some reactionary shops don't like z/OS >UNIX System Services and I'm considering pandering to them.
It's not a question if you (sorry, I mean they) like it or not. If they run z/OS, they have got UNIX. They'd better be prepared for the next update of one of their IBM or vendor software product. It might become a UNIX application all over a sudden. We're about to upgrade a vendor software and this now requires to be run under the Java VM (for good reasons; I don't want to go into details here). >... complain bitterly about "idiot designers" who ... Only time will tell who has been an idiot ;-) >Fully using UNIX would make this much easier to write. Having a long term MVS background myself, I still think you would be better off the UNIX way. Even if your server is run from a PDS(E), will all your users need to have UNIX credentials (UID/GID), so in fact you can't hide doing UNIX stuff. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
