Sorry Paul, but every system I have seen in Germany it works quite opposite to yours as you can see below. Maybe it has something to do with the German translation table in TCPIP or pcom. What will we learn from that? z/OS is not multi-cultural :-))
# ps -ef ! grep yyyy POHLI 16842875 65657 - 08:57:39 ttyp0000 0:00 grep yyyy # ps -ef | grep yyyy Usage: ps Ý-Aacdefjlmr¨ Ý-G idlist¨ Ý-g grouplist¨ Ý-n name¨ Ý-o format¨ ... Ý-p proclist¨ Ý-s idlist¨ Ý-t termlist¨ Ý-u!-U uidlist¨ Have a nice weekend Franz Josef Pohlen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Two silly questions about USS or OMVS on Z/OS > In a recent note, Pohlen Mailinglist said: > > > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:34:06 +0100 > > > > in omvs you use the exclamation mark instead of the pipe symbol. I know that > > this is a difference to normal unix systems, therefore I have mentioned it. > > > Ahem. I tried before I posted: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:128$ uname -a > OS/390 MVS3 15.00 03 9672 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:129$ ps -ef ! grep xxx > Usage: ps [-Aacdefjlmr] [-G idlist] [-g grouplist] [-n name] [-o format] ... [-p proclist] [-s idlist] [-t termlist] [-u|-U uidlist] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:130$ ps -ef | grep xxx > SPPG 824 33555246 - 12:27:12 ttyp0000 0:00 grep xxx > > -- gil > -- > StorageTek > INFORMATION made POWERFUL > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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