IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: Perl for z/OS Feature http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/ported/perl/index.html
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Lloyd Fuller <leful...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > I do not know if it is from the IBM Ported Tools or where, but we have Perl > on > z/OS: > > /VERSYSB/usr/lpp/perl/lib/5.8.7/ > > Lloyd > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Sent: Thu, July 21, 2011 9:51:22 AM > Subject: Perl (was: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with > Unix > like commands) > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:03:51 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > > >Well, pipes are sometimes useful. > > > Amen. > > >Perl is better than Rexx for parsing. Unfortunately, no current Perl > >is available for MVS due to EBCDIC-Unicode conflicts. > > > Has anyone tried compiling it with the ASCII compiler switch (and > XPLINK) and relying on code page autoconversion? Would this > even be useful? What is the intrinsic code page for Perl? UTF-8? > Is this within autoconversion's capability? > > (I'm not volunteering; I know no Perl) > > I hate EBCDIC! > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
