I had access to IBM's C compiler, I might actually try it. But I don't, so I can't. Perhaps I could afford Dignus' compiler to run at home on my Linux machine and do cross compiles. But I don't know and I'm short on "disposable income" right now.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > 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
