On Sun, 8 May 2011 00:34:07 +1000, Shane wrote: >Like a few others, I put up with whatever IBM marketing comes up >with for their (pseudo) posix compliant bolt-on.
I have some sympathy with the "pseudo" part. Particularly, I wish USS (only an A-R moron would raise the specter of ambiguity or impopriety given the manifest context) were ASCII-centric rather than EBCDIC-centric. >MVS in one corner, zLinux in the other - sounds eminently more >sensible. (This) USS is yet another oxymoron bursting to escape. > And here I disagree. I find it valuable to be able to use the powerful POSIX tools to build a control file, then invoke IEWL, IDCAMS, GIMZIP, etc.; filter the output strean; and make decisions based on RC (COND= is too limiting). For the weak coupling you envision, I have Linux x86 or Solaris in the opposite corner. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
